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

[Michael Phillips (KF4PFW)]

As some have suggested, I am going to evaluate OpenMail from HP. In order for me to pull this off, I *have* to allow the clients to continue using Outlook for everything. This has to appear to the end user as if they are using an exchange server....

So far, the licensing for a Linux/Openmail solution *appears* to be approximately $6,000 cheaper than going with exchange (this is for 200 users).

Mike

++ On 23/02/01 at 09:43 -0500 - Bao Ha thus spake:
> 
> Twig: http://twig.screwdriver.net
> 
> It is a web-based mail reader, which can be used anyhere and
> on anything.  Outlook/Exchange require MS.  It does scheduling,
> calendar, ....  It does not do mail-filtering.  SQWebmail provides
> a web-based interface that can setup mail-filtering easily, but
> not all of the other features of twig.
> 
> Some people loves exchange/outlook because they can swap stories
> on how they get infected by virus.  It is also a job-security
> issue.  I would love to see a budget comparison of maintaining
> an exchange server against a Unix/Linux mail server.
> 
> Bao
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Michael
> > Phillips (KF4PFW)
> > 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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