groupware for Fedora

[Peter Robinson]

> > But anyway, to get back to the real question, are there any groupware
> > projects going on for Fedora ? :-)
>
> I'm very interested in this subject too. I've been evaluating different
> opensource groupware solutions every now and then for about 3 years, and
> I'd really like to see a winner emerge. My requirements were a bit heavier
> than what we need in Fedora (notably the infamous MS Oulook connector), but
> anyway, it seems like there is still many candidates, most of which are
> developed by companies and have a proprietary version.
>
> - OpenXchange is very promising, based on Java/Tomcat. Many companies in my
> country are proposing it. We already talked a lot about this one, so I'll
> go on.
>
> - eGroupware is interesting, it's PHP-based, but many people find the
> interface confusing. It's not developed by a single company.
>
> - OpenGroupware is the one I have not tested for the longest time, so it may
> have evolved a lot. It's written in Objective-C, and used to be rather hard
> to install.
>
> - Kolab I never tested, because it runs all its services in a chroot, and I
> want to have other services besides the groupware on the box. But it is
> said to be very good.
>
> - I didn't know about SimpleGroupware, I'll test it as soon as I have the
> time. It's PHP-based.
>
> - Horde is also very intersting. It's PHP-based, very widely used, very
> stable and has lots of features. It does not depend on a single company,
> but there aren't many contributors, so it does not move as fast at the
> competition.
>
> - Zimbra is the last one I've tested. It's very very promising. It's based
> on Java/Tomcat, has a very sweet AJAX web-interface, but it installs its
> own version of apache, postfix, openldap, etc... making it practically
> non-packageable :(
>
> If you have more experience on those, or if you have a very good candidate,
> please tell.

What about www.hula-project.org?

Peter