[ale] Groupware/Office software - Let's keep the borg away!

[Chris Fowler]

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From: Michael Phillips (KF4PFW) [mailto:mike at coosavalley.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:34 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Groupware/Office software - Let's keep the borg away!




Ale'rs


The office where I work is currently Pro-"Best OS for the Job" and I have 14 Linux/Solaris Boxen providing various services to the company.

Last year, we were purchased by a Pro-M$ company and they have been pushing us to switch over to WinCrap 2K for all of our "major" services, so far unsuccessfully. The major push is for us to abandon our current RH Mail serve in favor of a Win2K/Exchange setup. The reasoning is that Exchange offers all these "neat" features on the client end (i.e. calender, scheduler, shared address book etc) that "Linux doesn't".

After talking with my Boss (who is quite happy with what we currently have and agrees with me that only 1%-2% of our folks would use these features), he has suggested that we find something that will offer those features found with using exchange in the Open Source community.

I have spent quite a bit of time searching freshmeat and turned up several interesting packages, however none that fit the bill.

We don't mind paying for such a beastie, we just gotta find it.


Does anyone know of a package that will allow me to keep the Penguin proudly flying here at work?



Thanks!


Mike


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