On 10/24/2015 09:57 PM, John M Andersen wrote:
Seriously, you couldn't PAY me to use Exchange.
+1, After eGroupWare matured along with webdav (caldav/carddav), the need for exchange vanished. You could now do with and open-source/MySQL backend what MS had worked to have a monopoly on (integrated calendar, contact, group scheduling, project management, mail, todo, phone log, etc...) Yes, I'm sure there are still some MS only features exchange has, but after going the eGroupWare route 10 years ago (and adding hylafax/avantfax for group fax), I have yet to find anything I need to do that it can't. Maybe when Greg is done with his experiment, he can give us a summary of what we are all missing out on... (ducking...) Honestly, I don't know of any gee-whiz feature I can think of that would make it attractive to trade in an open MySQL backend for a proprietary exchange backend. (even if the proprietary backend provided some sane dump to text or csv format. -- 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