[TriLUG] Exchange replacement

[Joshua Bedick]

I agree with you both, most don't use the groupware functionality of
exchange, but for those places that do I have to have it or a viable
alternative when placing bids.

Thanks for the info so far.  One piece for people in small offices.  I've
used the Bynari Connector and it does a good job of providing shared
Calendar and Contacts.  The connector is just an implementation of xIMAP
(extended IMAP?) that allows non-email messages to be read/written in
Outlook.  I have it running in a 3 person office against an SME box
(e-smith.org, RH 7.3 based distro with Qmail and random other things).

Joshua

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Huffstedtler" <rob at bagpipe.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Exchange replacement


> 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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