On Wednesday 29 November 2006 08:45, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

Hula is, let's say, I child under the projects and when I looked at it, was not very evolved. I don't know how much changed in this time. But when comparing Hula and OpenXchange with Zimbra [1] for example, you probably see why they disappear and don't get that much attention anymore.

That's very interesting for our Netmail (the product on which Hula was based) customers. From their white paper: "OpenLDAP is embedded within Zimbra in order to manage all of this Zimbra-specific configuration data without reliance upon external directories. At the same time, Zimbra supports the proxying of user login and access to the Global Address List (GAL) to an existing enterprise directory such as Microsoft Active Directory or other LDAP-compliance directories. " so existing user accounts in eDirectory, which Netmail used, could be used for authentication. Thanks for the link. Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hi! On 11/29/06, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

Yes, that's a sad story. SLOX (SuSE Linux OpenXchange) was very promising. When SuSE got bought by Novell, there were far to many Messaging services around (netmail, groupwise, slox), so slox had to go away.

2-3 years ago, I looked at alternatives to Exchange. All I found was SLOX. Looked good. Goal: linux server, windows desktops with outlook. Just slightly one year ago, we had to make a decision. Until that we only had linux servers. Users wanted calendar with the features from Outlook and Exchange. SLOX had not gone anywhere, so we desided that it's not the route to go. And still no other alternatives. So the easy choice then (even for me) was to go with Small Business Server. SLOX was the only alternative. I just do not know what the "linux people" look in a groupware clients and servers. What the users want is in Outlook+Exchange. If you do not even want to produce that, you will not compete. I'm sad to see SLOX go, but I'm also glad I didn't push that... life has been easy with Exchange. -- HG. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org