RE: Suggestion for SME...

Kolab also uses open-pkg, which would also need to be added.

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> From: Brad Hards [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 08 December 2003 12:09
> To: Klaus J. Mueller; [email protected]; Brandon Friedman
> Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 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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