Exchange Killer?

[John Abreau]

brk wrote:

> 
> I have to admit, for the most part Exchange actually works pretty well.  
> Many of these other alternatives offer a much less robust and complete 
> product with very little overall TCO reductions.  I might've been able 
> to tolerate Zimbra if it was free, but when it's 3/4 the cost of 
> Exchange, the dollars are close enough that I can't justify spending a 
> chunk of money for an incomplete solution that chews up tons of 
> resources to keep running.  Scalix was, IMO, even less complete and 
> reliable than Zimbra.

I have a mix of Outlook users and Thunderbird users, and the Thunderbird
users would like to be able to use the Lightning calendar. A couple of
them are also hoping to be able to switch to Linux at some point.

Currently we're using Courier IMAP for email, and a web calendar, and
one of my projects this year is to replace the web calendar with
something decent that supports both Outlook and Mozilla's calendar.
Scalix is one of the options I'll be evaluating.

In what ways were Scalix and the other alternatives completely
inadequate? What did Exchange provide that Scalix, etc, didn't?


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