Re: Exchange Server a like on Linux...

Todd McGuinness wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I know this is probably a stupid question but I am searching for
>options/solutions for my companies group calendering/addressbook server to
>take the place an MS Exchange Server.  Is there anything like that in the
>open source/linux world?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Todd McGuinness
>The Ticket Reserve
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there are several!
for something close but not totally there, there's www.bynari.com,
for something that offers all the same feature without the high cost and 
reliability issues, there are 2 others.

i'd suggest checking out
http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/openexchange/
or
http://www.net-itech.com/products/exchangeit.php

We are a Net-Integrator vendor so if you want more info on that I'd be 
glad to do that for you!  (sorry about the shameless plug.....had to do 
it!)

If you want you can do all this work by yourself (you better be an 
EXCELLENT programmer w/open-source products!), but it's much faster and 
easier to buy commercial grade products like the above.

For non-profits, you can do stuff like TWIG
http://www.informationgateway.org/

it doesn't work or look anywhere near as nice as the other commercial 
grade products....but it works!  There are other things similar to twig 
like squirrel mail or horde....but again, setting them up is NOT 
easy....especially horde.  Twig can work pretty quick....but doesn't 
offer everything you want.  There's a demo section on their site so you 
can see what it looks and works like.


Good luck!

Oskar