On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 19:10 +0200, HG wrote: > Hi! > > On 11/29/06, Dominique Leuenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, that's a sad story. SLOX (SuSE Linux OpenXchange) was very > > promising. When SuSE got bought by Novell, there were far to many > > Messaging services around (netmail, groupwise, slox), so slox had to go > > away. > > 2-3 years ago, I looked at alternatives to Exchange. All I found was > SLOX. Looked good. Goal: linux server, windows desktops with outlook. > Just slightly one year ago, we had to make a decision. Until that we > only had linux servers. Users wanted calendar with the features from > Outlook and Exchange. SLOX had not gone anywhere, so we desided that > it's not the route to go. And still no other alternatives. So the easy > choice then (even for me) was to go with Small Business Server. SLOX > was the only alternative. I just do not know what the "linux people" > look in a groupware clients and servers. What the users want is in > Outlook+Exchange. If you do not even want to produce that, you will > not compete. > > I'm sad to see SLOX go, but I'm also glad I didn't push that... life > has been easy with Exchange. > > -- > HG.
You should look at GroupWise and it comes with a free linux host. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
