Re: Packaged email/collaboration software

Along the lines of the "mail
server question" discussion, I would like to know what are
people's experience with, or opinions on, packaged in-house
email/collaboration systems? In particular, alternatives to
Microsoft Exchange that run on Linux. I have done some research
on packages
such as
Zimbra, IceWarp, Kerio, Citadel and Gordano but
it would help to talk to people who have had experience with
products like these.

I am not a computer programmer - I work in a small company (15 in
the office) and I have been interested in employing alternative/open
source type software in our business when possible. We run our file
server on a Linux OS and have had no problems.

We presently have our email hosted through Cbeyond which we access
through a POP server. Some people use Outlook, some use Thunderbird
as their email clients. Some of the people here use Blackberry's
but not with the Enterprise Server. I am looking at the
possibility of hosting our email in house with a package that would
include calendaring, global contacts, synchronization with mobile
devices (maybe with Andriod phones?)...

We work with an IT company that knows Linux systems well but they
are only familiar with Exchange and Zimbra. I know that this was
briefly discussed in January but only in regards to basic email
server needs. Any feedback I can get would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,

Rich Raffin

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