Replacing MS Exchange with a SuSE solution?
My boss wants us to setup an internal email, task, and calendaring solution for our company. We had previously used our ISP for email services. We are very close to going with Microsoft Exchange, but I would like to know what my options are on the Linux (and in particular, SuSE) side? Are there good open-source and/or commercial options that have great security and collaboration features? Someone at our company heard some guy talking about how he has an email, task, and calendaring solution running on Debian, but he didn't get details. I'm also curious .. how do these options compare to MS Exchange in terms of administration? We already paid for a copy of Exchange, but if anoter solution is easier to administer and more secure, we'll go with it. Thanks for the advice!
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 13:21, dreadnought wrote:
My boss wants us to setup an internal email, task, and calendaring solution for our company. We had previously used our ISP for email services.
We are very close to going with Microsoft Exchange, but I would like to know what my options are on the Linux (and in particular, SuSE) side? Are there good open-source and/or commercial options that have great security and collaboration features? Someone at our company heard some guy talking about how he has an email, task, and calendaring solution running on Debian, but he didn't get details.
I'm also curious .. how do these options compare to MS Exchange in terms of administration? We already paid for a copy of Exchange, but if anoter solution is easier to administer and more secure, we'll go with it.
Thanks for the advice!
Check http://www.stalker.com as well as offerings from SuSE. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
On Monday 02 February 2004 13:21, dreadnought wrote:
We are very close to going with Microsoft Exchange, but I would like to know what my options are on the Linux (and in particular, SuSE) side? Are there good open-source and/or commercial options that have great security and collaboration features? Someone at our company heard some guy talking about how he has an email, task, and calendaring solution running on Debian, but he didn't get details.
I'm also curious .. how do these options compare to MS Exchange in terms of administration? We already paid for a copy of Exchange, but if anoter solution is easier to administer and more secure, we'll go with it.
At Linux World I attended a presentation on SuSE's Open Exchange Server. it is a commercial product from SuSE that does everything Exchange Server does and supports outlook clients. I have not used it, but our office is considering it. There is info on SuSE's web site under business products. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 tel 914-632-3778 fax 914-632-5502
On February 2, 2004 01:56 pm, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Check http://www.stalker.com as well as offerings from SuSE.
There is also OpenGroupware.org (the product) available from, you guessed it, http://opengroupware.org It has a long track record commercially and was released as an open source product last year. It may meet you needs as it one of the few that comes with a commercial connector for Outlook clients that is a true mapi connector (hence it cannot be released under a gpl type license) It has a very active community behind it, and excellent commercial or list suport. regards /ch
Op maandag 2 februari 2004 19:21, schreef dreadnought:
We are very close to going with Microsoft Exchange, but I would like to know what my options are on the Linux (and in particular, SuSE) side? Are there good open-source and/or commercial options that have great security and collaboration features? Someone at our company heard some guy talking about how he has an email, task, and calendaring solution running on Debian, but he didn't get details.
http://www.kolab.org Just today on freshmeat: http://www.ScheduleWorld.com/ -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
Hi, Am Montag, 2. Februar 2004 20:02 schrieb Michael A Coan:
On Monday 02 February 2004 13:21, dreadnought wrote:
We are very close to going with Microsoft Exchange, but I would like to know what my options are on the Linux (and in particular, SuSE) side? Are there good open-source and/or commercial options that have great security and collaboration features? Someone at our company heard some guy talking about how he has an email, task, and calendaring solution running on Debian, but he didn't get details.
I'm also curious .. how do these options compare to MS Exchange in terms of administration? We already paid for a copy of Exchange, but if anoter solution is easier to administer and more secure, we'll go with it.
At Linux World I attended a presentation on SuSE's Open Exchange Server. it is a commercial product from SuSE that does everything Exchange Server does and supports outlook clients. I have not used it, but our office is considering it. There is info on SuSE's web site under business products.
See http://www.suse.de/en/business/products/suse_business/openexchange/ There is also a mailing list called suse-slox-e about this product: http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/online_help/mailinglists/ http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-slox-e/ So if you want to know what users of the Openexchange Server are thinking about it ... Greetings from Bremen hartmut
The Monday 2004-02-02 at 10:21 -0800, dreadnought wrote:
I'm also curious .. how do these options compare to MS Exchange in terms of administration? We already paid for a copy of Exchange, but if anoter solution is easier to administer and more secure, we'll go with it.
I can only talk from the user side of MS Exchange (NT4). We had 1200 staff here, all with accounts, but not everybody had computers, perhaps 800. It was very slow even on the intranet, and we had two server sites. The administrators said it scaled badly. For remote access (V90 modem) it was a real pain: even with a local copy of the mailbox it insisted on downloading again before editing an email; the trick was to connect, synchronize, disconnect, read/write email, and connect. And things were made worse because every body sent big emails with lot of files. A few "fortunate" were able to convince somebody high up, and had normal imap accounts instead: even on remote use it was fast. I don't know if this has improved on newer versions. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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