On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:08:46PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:49:03PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: > Has any one got any comments on communigate ? I saw it mentioned earlier > but no comments
It has a decent web interface. That's about the only good thing to be said about it, really. By all reports the MAPI (Outlook) plugin is useful, but slow, and doesn't support OL 2003 real well. It suffers from the usual problems of monolithic servers, of a lack of real flexibility, and because it's closed-source it doesn't get the features developed that it needs, despite having a fairly active and clueful user community, because the development team seems pretty small and under-resourced. If you had a real need to support Outlook with full groupware functionality, but really really really wanted your mail on a linux server, and hadn't forked out for Exchange, it'd be worth it. I don't think the benefits of it are really worth the cost as a migration scheme away from Exchange, though. One advantage of it is that you can try it out before you buy it -- so it's not a real risky proposition. I wish they'd open-source the thing, or provide the specs to their proprietary protocols so you could pick and choose the bits of it you wanted to use, and better integrate it with other systems. - Matt
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