Exchange Replacement

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 10:41, Derek Martin wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 09:40:53AM -0400, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> > >   What are your requirements?
> > 
> > I'm looking for the basic functionalities of Exchange: E-mail,
> > centralized contacts, shared calendars with permissions and free/busy
> > data, meeting requests, and the like. And, it all has to tie nicely into
> > the client side, since several of the users insist on using Outlook....
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> Well, there's the almost equally yucky Lotus Notes, but at least it
> runs on Unix.  Can't use Outlook with it though, AFAIK.  If this is a
> requirement, then I believe you're stuck with Exchange.  I'm surprised
> you let people use that monstrosity over there anyway... ;-)

There is only a few that are using it that are under my jurisdiction.
The heavy outlook users are in other countries, and they want to try to
make us use it, along with Exchange. That's why I need a technical
alternative to propose. 

> > >   I do have a couple of additional bookmarks for products that claim to be
> > > "Exchange alternatives" and run on Linux.  My knowledge of them pretty much
> > > ends at my bookmark file, so take it FWIW:
> > > 
> > >   - Samsung Contact (http://www.samsungcontact.com) (formerly HP OpenMail)
> > 
> > I didn't know that this had been released yet. I remember when HP
> > abandoned it a few years ago.
> 
> I was going to suggest this too (in the form of HP OpenMail), but I
> don't think it does calendaring.  I may be mistaken, but their product
> page mentions nothing about it...

The product information page for Samsung Contact says that it does
calendaring and scheduling. I haven't heard back on pricing yet, though.
I may download the free beta version to see what it's like.

C-Ya,
Kenny

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Kenneth E. Lussier
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