Quoting CYWare ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Interesting. I am assigned the task of purchasing a groupware > solution for a client by first quarter next year. They are currently > using Exchange and are considering Lotus, which will cost, based on > the number of licenses and all the extras, about 5M (100K USD). This > is why I was looking at SuSE's solution (32K USD per 1000 licenses).
Yeah. Lotus Notes / Domino is incredibly expensive. And horrible, besides. In your shoes, I'd be looking at SuSE Linux Exchange Server (and Bynari Insight Server, and Samsung Contact) as well. > If you have an ideal list of components that can be put together and > can act as a reasonable replacement then please save my client some > money and post it! Maybe you've heard of what Aristotle said to the young Alexander of Macedon, when the young lad demanded that his teacher simplify: "There's no royal road to geometry." ;-> Anyone who's going to do a reasonable job proposing a "groupware" setup to you would logically have to be local to your client, study its needs, and do a lot of work putting things together, prototyping them, and testing them. And that's of course part of what you pay SuSE, Bynari, or HP/Samsung for -- not to mention enterprise-level technical support. Given that your client has what sounds like a firm deadline and is seriously considering Lotus Notes / Domino, I'd speculate that a homebuilt option will not appeal to them. -- Cheers, A good man has few enemies; a ruthless man has none. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
