At 10:59 PM 10/2/2007 +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote:
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:06:00AM -0700, Lord Sporkton wrote:
> i am looking into an exchange replacement, im looking to have use of
> calender appointments, tasks and mail all through a central server,
> also i have multiple windows based mobile devices syncing with this
> server, i wasnt able to find anything that looked like a exchange
> replacement in ports or pkgs
>
> this is on 4.1 release
>
> was hoping someone here had experience with such and could give
> suggestions on some i might look into
If you want Exchange, with all the Microsoft-integration that it can
provide, just run Exchange. Just don't ask me to admin it, put a sane
MTA in front, and make sure not to misconfigure it too badly.
However, integrating all that with a completely Microsoft-centric
environment takes an unfun amount of work.
In short, what do you really want to achieve? OSS offers plenty of
groupware and some very good MTAs, but no real drop-in replacement for
Exchange.
Sorry, but Zimbra is alive and well and a great replacement for Exchange.
Contact me offline if anyone would like a referral to a service provider -
here is my associates comment [he has been part of the Zimbra project for
three years] on the acquisition by Yahoo:
Zimbra will be proceeding down a faster development path with the Yahoo
acquisition! Y! paid about $350m and locked in the core executive team
for 3-5 years (depending upon individual) and plan to remain true to
their open source roots. They view Zimbra as the way to tackle Google
Apps - offering both hosted (small biz) and on- site/dedicated hosting.
Lee
