Hi! On 11/29/06, Dominique Leuenberger <Dominique.Leuenberger@tmf-group.com> 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