Exchange server replacement

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 17:06 3/7/2004, you wrote:
>There are only two products that work as a replacement for MS Excahnge that
>allow Outlook to work in MAPI mode. They are www.samsungcontact.com and
>www.scalix.com both of these are commercial products.

Not true.

There is a third product, Stalker Software's CommuniGate Pro, which works 
well with Outlook as a client. Been around for a long time, solid, stable, 
and well-supported. It is also commercial, but they have pricing for 
smaller setups that (while not cheap) is much lower than Exchange's, and I 
would expect a lot easier administration.

CommuniGate Pro is available as a fully-functional free (gratis) download, 
with the tiny price that it adds a one-line promo for itself on emails you 
send. That one line goes away if/when you pay for a license, so you can 
install and use it for free, then if you really like it and you really hate 
that one line then you can pay for it.

Also note that Samsung Contact flat-out told me recently that if I didn't 
have 500 users or more they weren't interested in selling me a copy AT ALL, 
since they want to refocus on the Enterprise market. They simply refused to 
sell me a copy for 25 users.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
http://www.simpaticus.com