Hi Brad, Sorry but answering questions with questions are bit trivial and no productive. This is a real concern as we are in the market to make use of openchange and we see this as a viable alternative to Microsoft therefore the questions about the production readiness of openchange is relevant and if we do not have the skills to install and maintain openchange we will pay someone to do it for us. We are not shooting down Zen or Sogo in any regards we are just expressing our views related to our experience with the product.
With Zentyal Microsoft outlook kept on disconnecting. If it was not an openchange issue then it could have been a samba issue etc... this is why we are directing the question to Julien. This is in no way a negative question or reflecting negatively on the product. Like I said, we are in the market to use openchange but we need to know when the team invasions the release of a stable version that can be implemented into a serious production environment as (ready to use) product or even ready to be sold type of a product. This is the level of ready that I want to find out. To ask me (the end user) how and what... is not the appropriate course of action. This question is a discovery process to decide if we should hold back a bit on openchange or should be go with it. Or the alternatives go with Microsoft. So thanks for your views but it does not help me in making decisions. Raymond Potgieter IT Manager -----Original Message----- From: Brad Hards [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 19 May 2014 11:22 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Raymond Subject: Re: [openchange][devel] samba panic in general {My views follow - this is not meant to represent anyone else's views} On Mon, 19 May 2014 09:11:25 AM Raymond wrote: > In relation to the comments below by Sven, in your opinion when do you > think will we have a stable version that is 100% ready for a > production environment or is it too early for openchange? I have tried > Zentyal server > 3.4 but the openchange part seems to disconnect from outlook more than > staying connected and I also feel that it may be a risk to apply into > a production environment or am I totally wrong? I think there is always some risk in production, for any software. Do you agree? > Openchange is revolutionary soft, but is it too early for the project > to expect a stable realease for production? This depends on your risk appetite, which is really your call. > Just to give you an idea, I have been monitoring the mailing lists and > the project is too technical at times for the (avarage person) to even > install the software let alone trouble shoot when things go wrong. So you don't think you can maintain it? Then perhaps it is not for you at this stage. Only you can make that judgement. > Personally I am looking forward to the day that the entire install can > be done via RPM or when a web interface can be designed to make the > install and config much more user frendly. Are you working on this? If not, how do you think it can happen? > From your point of view I think you can do the install of openchange > by now blind folded, but for us it is a bit more of a challange. I think Zentyal and SoGo have done a lot of good work on these aspects. > Your thoughts on where you think the project is heading in relation to > stability and ease of install? If no-one tests openchange, or bugs (with diagnostics information) don't get reported, then it will take longer. If people help - code, bug reporting, testing of old bugs, documentation - it'll get better quicker. See Julien's guidance to Sven, or ask for more guidance if you need help identifying, reporting and fixing bugs. Brad <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> <title>email-banner</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> </br> <a href="http://www.joburgtheatre.com";><img src="http://www.showbusiness.co.za/emailbanner/banner1.jpg"; width="660" height="165" /> <!-- ImageReady Slices (banner4web.jpg) --><!-- End ImageReady Slices --></a></br> </body> </html> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.openchange.org/listinfo/devel
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