With due respect to budding startups, and aesthetic judgements aside, both Scalix and ZImbra provide reasonably good products for a reasonable amount of money.
We - internally - are using Zimbra and are pretty happy. Up until a few days ago, we were running community edition (free) and are now switching to a full commercial version for a variety of reasons. M ----- "Ira Abramov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdie folks! > > 1. > > a client of mine is a budding startup, and they got to the point > where > they no longer want their mail services hosted, but locally installed > and providing the full outlook experience. In simple words - calender > sync, common folders. stuff that's not readily available with IMAP > alone. The offer for Exchange will entail buying two servers and lots > of > software licences and I'm hoping not to go there. I've looked into > Open-Xchange (Ugly, community version doesn't support their outlook > connector and no community connector to be found), Scalix (Ugly and > expensive) and Zimbra (Donno if ugly, but still pretty expensive). > > Everyone tells me that free/busy files on a samba share don't really > work. any other solutions or maybe recommendatiopns from a real-life > experiance with the above three? > > 2. > > Same client wants standard images for its R&D machines and desktops - > all CentOS (and maybe windows laptops too down the line). Two common > aproaches for that are Xcat and OSCAR, and I also had experiance with > OpenQRM, but that product is EOL. Can anyone recommend one over the > other, or a different oe altogether? > > Thanks, > Ira. > > -- > Back from the dead > Ira Abramov > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic Swiftouch, LTD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-544-676764 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
