[ale] ALE CENTRAL for Thurs., 12/8, 7:30pm: SCALIX

[aaron]

This month Ben Chapman is not only filling the role of a generous
sponsor for our Emory meeting space, he's also generously providing
our main presentation with a talk on the Law School's consideration
of Scalix intranet messaging:

=====================================
There are a number of companies who are trying to supply Microsoft 
Exchange-compatible or Exchange-competitive back-ends for corporate 
messaging systems. The goal is to allow end users to use Outlook, which 
is now the dominant mail/PIM client on corporate users' desks, while 
allowing administrators to deploy systems that are Unix-based and that 
avoid some of the problems that Microsoft Exchange has had in the past.

Scalix is one such product. It has a strong technical pedigree (HP 
OpenMail is the underlying foundation) and an outstanding webmail 
client. The law school is investigating the deployment of Scalix to 
handle approximately 150 faculty and staff email accounts. Ben Chapman, 
Assistant Dean for Information Technology at the law school, will 
discuss Scalix and will demonstrate it for the group.


Bio:
Ben Chapman is in charge of the Emory University School of Law's IT 
department. Before formally entering the IT field in 1997, he practiced 
law for five years with a 40 lawyer firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 
previously IT director for the University of Tulsa College of Law and 
has been at Emory since 2003. He has owned some flavor of Unix-based 
computer since 1991, and has also owned a Sinclair QL, an Atari 520ST, 
an Epson HX-20, an NEC Starlet, and other bits of micro-computing history.

[ ed: What? No Commodore PET? VIC-20? C-64? :-) ]

=======================================

PS:
At this time we have openings for meeting presentations in January,
February and March '06.  If you have a topic or product you want to
present to the group, a lead to share for potential outside presenters,
or specific topic requests that you would like to see addressed, please 
contact :
<aaron at pd.org> or <Charles.Shapiro at turner.com>

All GNU / Linux affiliated topics and ideas are welcome!

peace
aaron