[TriLUG] Exchange replacement

[Jeremy Portzer]

At my employer, we use GroupWise for central calendaring (as well as
email).  While GroupWise is generally an annoying piece of software, on
both the client and server side, the "busy search" feature of the
calendaring is invaluable in planning meetings.  It only works if
everyone maintains their calendar in GroupWise however, and since
there's no client in Linux to update this calendar, I have to use a
spare Windows machine to update mine.  (I can get the GroupWise e-mail
via IMAP so that's no problem for Evolution.)

I have heard that there is work towards an open-source calendar server
that could work with clients such as Evolution, but I don't know what
its current status is.

--Jeremy

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 11:39, Rob Huffstedtler wrote:
> That's pretty much my experience, too.  I'm weird enough to admit that I
> actually like Exchange when it is used to its potential, but I've only
> seen that in one of the places where I have worked or consulted in the
> last 7 years.
> 
> Ironically, it was all the way back in '98.  We had our faxes,
> voicemail, and workflow system and homegrown knowledge management system
> completely integrated with exchange.  I haven't seen anyone doing
> anything more than using it for mail and public folders since then.
> 
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:18:57AM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
> > Most folks I've seen use Exchange to send/receive email and don't use
> > the fancy schmancy group calendaring and poll-taking features.  Me
> > thinks I'd rather talk the customer into using Outlook compatible with a
> > Linux-based email solution than emulate Exchange.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Turnpike Man [mailto:turnpike420 at yahoo.com] 
> > > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:47 AM
> > > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Exchange replacement
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I might be removing Exchange for Sendmail... as much as you 
> > > can say about the Exchange/Outlook combo, our company doesn't 
> > > use it for what it can do anyway. 
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