Re: Suggestion for SME...

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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:46 pm, Klaus J. Mueller wrote:
> Hm? For what I understand kolab would make a great extension to e-smith.
The kolab implementation is very tightly tied to the concept of "everything in 
LDAP", while e-smith runs its own configuration database in Perl.

> [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]
I see e-smith as the events/actions/templates core. Everything else is 
changeable. See http://www.e-smith.org/architecture/ and 
http://www.e-smith.org/concepts/

Compare that with http://www.kroupware.org/architecture-1.1/index.html

> 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))
I tend to agree, except for my home network, where I want it all in one little 
(mini-ITX, say) box.

> Extending the collaborative concept by a workgroup server would be a
> great idea in my opinion.
We could, instead of the kolab approach, try eGroupware - 
http://www.egroupware.org/ or another system

> 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"
kolab has no fileserver (or gateway) functionality. The question is - would 
you rather add the groupware functionality to e-smith, or the fileserver 
functionality to kolab?

Brad
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