Why would they insist of the mail service would be local? It'll raise many new concerns: availability, backups, data corruptions..
If it's just a need for shared calendar and central mail storage, I'd be using Google for domains. Should be free of charge for small companies. IMAP/POP3 is supported and there's also a new outlook-calendar-sync software; but I prefer to use the GUI for calendar stuff. I bet your alternative solution don't suggest the SMS-on-appointment feature, not for free at least :) - Oren On Monday 31 March 2008 11:40, Ira Abramov wrote: > Howdie folks! > > 1. > > a client of mine is a budding startup, and they got to the point where > they no longer want their mail services hosted, but locally installed > and providing the full outlook experience. In simple words - calender > sync, common folders. stuff that's not readily available with IMAP > alone. The offer for Exchange will entail buying two servers and lots of > software licences and I'm hoping not to go there. I've looked into > Open-Xchange (Ugly, community version doesn't support their outlook > connector and no community connector to be found), Scalix (Ugly and > expensive) and Zimbra (Donno if ugly, but still pretty expensive). > > Everyone tells me that free/busy files on a samba share don't really > work. any other solutions or maybe recommendatiopns from a real-life > experiance with the above three? > > 2. > > Same client wants standard images for its R&D machines and desktops - > all CentOS (and maybe windows laptops too down the line). Two common > aproaches for that are Xcat and OSCAR, and I also had experiance with > OpenQRM, but that product is EOL. Can anyone recommend one over the > other, or a different oe altogether? > > Thanks, > Ira. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
