Guys, Just dropping a line for those who haven't heard of eGroupWare. In my opinion it is the best Linux based exchange replacement available and through its webdav, caldav and carddav provides complete mobile device integration for contacts, calendar and group project collaboration. (yes, it works with the iPhone too!) It seamlessly integrates with OpenOffice/LibreOffice as a webdav server providing web based document collaboration. It is a php, mysql app with a bit of ajax/js working its way into the project. The current version is 1.8 and the latest updates are available via svn. openSuSE has a package, but I prefer the svn install. I have used it since 1.0 and for the better part of a decade, version updates have been seamless. The project is headed by Ralf Becker and it actively developed with a commercial version and support offered under the Stylite name. For small/medium business (or home use), this is a fantastic package. The normal disclaimers apply - I'm in no way associated with the project (other than helping file bugs and feature requests), this is just a FYI for the community to educate those who have interest in a complete, corporate class, calendar, contact, todo, tracker, knowledge-base, collaborative type tool that exceeds what is currently the "exchange standard" on the closed-source side of the house. Configuration and setup is a 15 min. process (including download). Just make sure you have apache2, mysql, pear and php installed and running and then simply install eGroupWare, give the web server write permission to header.inc.php and run the setup routine: http://yourTLD/egroupware/setup. For the Impatient: For those interested, simply (default paths for openSuSE): cd /srv/www/htdocs # (either give yourself temp write permissions to htdocs or su to root) svn checkout \ http://svn.egroupware.org/egroupware/branches/branch/aliases/default . # Note the '.' at the end. and you can look at the following for details # http://community.egroupware.org/wiki?wikipage=subversion chown wwwrun:www /srv/www/htdocs/egroupware/header.inc.php Then point your browser to: http://yourTLD/egroupware/setup and follow the prompts to install any missing dependencies and then configure your header (to configure the mysql database user and pass, etc.) and then log in and configure your server specifics for data storage, backup location, mail, etc... I (and the egroupware docs) recommend creating an 'admin' user that you use to manage the install (like root in Linux) rather than administering egw from a normal user account. (both work - I have installs that use each) Using an admin user for administration just provides a nice separation between administration and use. As with any package of this scale there are a number of items you can tweak to your liking, but for the most part all the defaults will work just fine. The application allows fine grain control via 'user' and 'group' ACLs to control who has access to what information and the sharing of information between different groups of employees, etc.. This project is actively developed, and has been for a number of years. It just keeps getting better. The documentation for the project at egroupware.org is fairly complete and the mailing lists (both user and dev) are first rate and able to answer anything not covered by the site. Since this package is php/mysql based, even with hundreds of users, there is very little load on your server and throughput demands are minimal. Well worth looking at if you have interest in a true server based groupware solution. Enjoy. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org