Opinions on Exchange options

[dalen]

redhat wrote:
> First - forgive the length of this post...I am going to throw this out
> there for whomever wants to respond.  I have an Exchange 5.5 server
> which is my PDC (primary authentication and email - internal only)
> running on server 2000.  Last year it crashed because it mysteriously
> forgot that it was the PDC and I had to rebuild it from scratch.  Now, I
> am having serious issues with Exchange mail and am getting tired of it. 
> I am required to offer calendaring, shared contacts, yadda, yadda,
> yadda.  I have looked at SuSE's offering and have also looked into a
> product called bynari.  Both seem to offer the right stuff - at a hefty
> price - comparable to M$.  I don't mind the price but I want to be sure
> that in another year I am not back in the same position with problem on
> a different platform.  I don't have anyone on staff that can set up
> Sendmail and I don't have the time to learn it.  I need something that
> is intuitive enough to set up and administer.  If you are familiar with
> either of these products I would appreciate pros and cons.  If you have
> a different product that does not require 3 brains to setup and
> administer I would appreciate that as well.
> thanks,
> DF
> 
> 
SME server is easy to setup and can handle email, pdc, and many other 
services.  It does not have calendaring built in, but there are many 
groupware web apps that could be used.  It might be worth investigating. 
  You can find it at contribs.org