[TriLUG] MS Exchange scheduling component replacement?

[Jon Carnes]

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On Thursday 29 November 2001 18:15, you wrote:
> Howdy folks,
>
> I'm doing some volunteer work for one of the homeless ministries in the
> Triangle, which is currently 100% Microsoft, and looking to introduce
> them to "the light".  One of the things that they are asking me to do is
> install MS Exchange 5.5 solely so people can schedule time with the
> pastor.  Even with the reduced price given to charities, this is going to
> cost about $1,500 for the additional software on top of the existing NT
> 4.0 server. I'm qualified and able to do this but would like to propose
> another option to them.  Since my only recent scheduling experience is
> with MS Exchange & Lotus Notes I wanted to ask y'all if there was an open
> source option that could go head to head against Exchange.  It would be
> really nice if this integrated with email somehow.
>
> They seem to have some old broken Pentiums around that I could piece
> together into a workable Linux server.  All of the client machines are
> Windows 9x or NT 4.0.  I hear they may also have some Windows For
> Workgroups around too but I'm not too worried about that right now.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
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