Exchange Replacement

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: 07 Apr 2003 09:40:53 EDT
"Kenneth E. Lussier" said:

>On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 09:27, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
>> On 7 Apr 2003, at 9:10am, ken.lussier at zuken.com wrote:
>> 
>>   Frankly, I don't think there is another product on the market that fills
>> all the functions of Exchange.
>
>I don't even need it to be one single server. If I need to set up mail,
>LDAP, and whatever else separately, that's fine, too.

Let's see:

	Directory services		-> LDAP
	Mail				-> POP3 or IMAP server
	Calendar			-> WebCalendar
	Meeting/Equipment scheduling	-> mrbs (Meeting Room Booking System)

That should just about cover most of the components of Exchange that 
people are always gabbing about.  The down side is that the calendar 
is not completely e-mail integrated.  The last I looked at it, you 
could get requests for meetings, and accept/decline via a response to 
the calendar server, but it was completely integrated the way 
Exchange is to Outlook.

Additionally, Palm/PocketPC interop may be problematic.  WebCal could 
sorta kinda do it, but it was a hack which revolved around saving the 
calendar file to your local system and then using whatever tools 
available to get that data onto your hand held device.

You could probably write a quick and dirty perl cgi web page to 
extract data from an LDAP server and write it out to the proper 
format for importing into the various hand held devices.  Who knows, 
CPAN may already have that wheel invented :)

HTH,
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