Replacing Microsoft Exchange

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Aug 10 05:08:24 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 23:56 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> IMHO, Exchange is Microsoft's killer app for a number of reasons.  I am
> about to go do an Exchange 2003 installation for a client because the
> president of the company likes the fact that he can sync his mail on his
> laptop while he is on the road, because he can schedule meetings through
> Outlook, he can check his mail through a web based application (OWA) and
> his staff can sync their schedules with a variety of handhelds.
> 
> I can counter most of his arguments piecemeal, but I really can't point
> to a single F/OSS solution, or even a suite of F/OSS solutions which can
> beat Exchange's features.
> 
> So here is my question - has anyone had any success in replacing many or
> all of Exchange's features with any F/OSS solutions?
> 
> It would be really cool if there were a F/OSS plugin that allowed
> Outlook 2000 to use a F/OSS backend like IMAP and LDAP or something like
> that.  I have seen some commercial products like Toltec Connector and
> Bynari, but I am really interested in F/OSS.
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On nahant list on your mostly similar question, I suggested openXchange.
It has Outlook plugin. 

Craig




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