Re: Alternate offerings -- OpenXchange + OpenGroupware.ORG?

Hey Adam, thanx for responding.  I reference your PDFs all the time.

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 08:30, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> A recent distro of SuSe comes with all the required packages, and all basic
> configuration (mail, LDAP, etc...) can be accomplished via YAST2.

Yes, I've been impressed with the integrated SL/SLES 9 capabilities.

> You can't *create* the DSA via point & click, but you can setup to use an
> existing one via YAST2, for the OS anyway.
> It really takes about ten minutes to create a working mail server & LDAP
> client.

For me, it's about a half-hour, but still not bad, I agree.

The key is for my clients.

> Recent versions of Exchange use WebDAV, you can get data from the Exchange
> server using basically any DAV client.  MAPI is a legacy thing, even in the
> Exchange world

Right.  But at this point, there is still a lot of MAPI client usage out
there.

> (although for all I know it still uses MAPI internally, I've
> only been the client to Exchange systems - the concept of another cluster
> of M$ services makes me break out in hives).

What bothers me with Exchange is the use of Jet.

> If you have a Samba PDC you can use NT's User Manager For Domains for
> user administration,  everyone seems comforatble with that.

Myself as well.

> Recent Samba's also provide a web based user administration tool -
> http://lam.sourceforge.net/  For bieng a yet-another-web-interface is
> doesn't suck too bad.

Oooh, haven't kept up there.  Will definitely check it out.

> I've not found any decent point-n-clicky things for administering Cyrus
> (checking quotas, changing folder permissions, etc...)

Yeah, that's a major reason why I haven't moved some of my clients (typically
under 50 users) away from HP OpenMail (yes, I've still got plenty running
it ;-).  If they want to move, they want at least a basic GUI admin tool this
time.

OGo is there on the collaboration front.  I have no qualms in paying for
SKYRiX connectors to Outlook, since the ZideStore is open (so their data is
always accessible from other clients).  But I'd like a nice, basic, semi-
integrated OpenLDAP+Cyrus IMAP admin tool.

That's where I've gone Bynari InsightServer in the past.


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