Re: Suggestion for SME...

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Hi there,

Brad Hards wrote:
| On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:44 pm, Brandon Friedman wrote:
|
|>Hi Folks
|>
|>[...]
|>There would be a lot of work getting kolab intergrated into SME but
|>maybe what we should do is take the concepts and get them to work on
|>SME?
|
| I think it might work better if we took the SME additions and bolted
them onto
| Kolab. The major functionality that is missing from Kolab is the
fileserver
| bits (Samba, ftpd of some kind, and rsync).
|
| If we want to go to in a groupware server direction, it might be
better to
| turn SME into a firewall / gateway box, dropping out the non-essential
| functionality.

Hm? For what I understand kolab would make a great extension to e-smith.

[Does someone have a link to a self definition of e-smith? I can't seem
to find one on e-smith.org. In case there is none yet: shouldn't we have
one? Otherwise we might find out that we all have very different ideas
of what e-smith actually is. This could mean that we're trying to run
into several directions at the same time - now that we can decide which
way to go]

The way I see e-smith is mainly as a server for small and medium
enterprises. As such it is the only one in the company/department. And
as such it should try to fill these collaborative needs
(non-comprehensive list):
- - file serving (win, mac, *nix)
- - mail in and out (inc. webmail)
- - central address book
- - ...
(all this with a web-based administration)

I think that the gateway functionality is just a minor part in the whole
concept. (BTW: I think that for security reasons this is the component
that should be the first one to be put on a different box in real world
scenarios - which should be the case for most installations anyway
(DSL-Routers...); it can be done very easily with another low end
box running e.g. http://fli4l.de/ (ISDN, DSL))

Extending the collaborative concept by a workgroup server would be a
great idea in my opinion.

There should not be many components missing, anyway - should there?

Brad: did I get you right here: there are some the fileserver bits
missing in e-smith? Or does that read "these are the parts that are
missing in Kolab"


Maybe I'm the one who's off track, here :-)


Looking forward to taking e-smith (I'd be happy to see us using the
original name again) to new horizons!


Regards, K.

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