On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > Paul Roach wrote: >> It's an interesting development and perhaps brings Ubuntu one step >> closer to providing support for an application that can genuinely >> compete with MS Exchange (the sole reason why we still have an Active >> Directory environment here - as everything else for Windows clients >> can be delivered via Samba+LDAP). IMHO it's the one thing that's >> lacking for Ubuntu and Linux in general. A cost effective, functional >> and not exclusively web based groupware solution that functions for >> both Windows and Linux clients would then provide a complete migration >> path for corporates to an Open-Source environment. Unfortunately >> Exchange is, at the moment Microsoft's killer app and is too often >> dismissed as a simple mail server. The integration it provides with >> the other aspects and features (shared tasks, calendars, public >> folders, journaling, etc) mean that there's nothing out there at >> present that can touch it. >> >> Thanks for bringing this to attention Mac, and for the detailed >> response Alan. > Well there is Zimbra. I tried the Open Source edition and found it to > work quite well. After a bit of fiddling I worked out how to import > Exchange users to Zimbra (there is a Windows tool available) and it has > a nice web interface, mail, calenders etc. It can also be expanded with > the use of Zimlets (I liked the fact I could link it in with Google > Maps). It also has Windows and Linux clients, and I believe a Mac > client too (Zimbra Desktop). > > On the down side though the Open Source edition doesn't have plugins for > Outlook (I believe that only in the paid for version) and it isn't under > the GPL, I gather it's some sort of Yahoo licence which is more > restrictive. Not to mention the fact it's future appears to be somewhat > hanging on the balance (Yahoo may or may not sell it according to > articles I've read on the net). > > Rob > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
Has anyone else seen/used Opengoo? It is a Affero GPL V3 Web office suite. The online demo was very nice(Although it appears to have stopped working now. I only found out about it yesterday and was surprised it hasn't received more attention. I am not sure how it compares to other web officey type things, such as Zimbra. I was about to install Zimbra to run email, but Opengoo looks like it might be worth a try. Matt. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
