MS Exchange Server competition

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, at 11:30pm, greg at freephile.com wrote:
> People are often looking for Linux work-alikes for MS Exchange Server.  
> Novell just announced that they are making SUSE OpenExchange GPL.

  Last I looked (which was admittedly some time ago), OpenExchange was
nothing more then an IMAP server bolted on to a glorified web calendar.  
While a useful product, about all it had in common with Microsoft Exchange
was the word "Exchange" in the name.  More importantly, you could get the
same thing for free with any IMAP server and phpGroupWare.  So OpenExchange
always struck me as more of a marketing effort then a unique product.  
That's a valid business technique, of course.  It works for Microsoft, after
all.

  But, IMO, releasing OpenExchange as GPL isn't such a big deal, from a
technical stand-point.  I find it far more interesting that *Novell* -- the
same company that used to threaten legal action for reverse-engineering
their protocols and data structures -- is releasing major products under the
GPL.

> Also, there is a project called OpenGroupware which is GPL
> http://opengroupware.org/en/users/faq/index.html

  Also these:

  - http://www.phpgroupware.org 
  - http://www.phprojekt.com/ 

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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