Kenneth Armstrong, White Property Group P/L wrote:
G’day –
Looking for opinions on Using Scalix as an exchange replacement -
only need approx 10 licences so would use the community edition. Using
outlook 2003 on the windows xp desktops
Cheers
Ken
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HI Kenneth,
I must start by saying that I have never installed, used or seen
exchange in action, so I really dont know what a good exchange
replacment would be, however I have installed Scalix, and also Zimbra. I
must say that there is no doubt in my mind that Zimbra was by far and
away the better option for the company I set it up for because of a few
reasons.
Reasons
1) speed was an issue with scalix, as they are a medium sized business,
they could not afford to go out and buy all new equipment, and so I had
to convert existing hardware, I found zimbra would run well enough to be
usable on a test machine I had, which was a 2.0 celeron with 512mb ram.
Scalix on the other hand was not usable on that hardware. Of course the
hardware it was to run was better than the test machine, but this gave a
good indication that zimbra was far more efficient and would most likely
run better on the server machine.
2) Calender sharing and viewing was a no contest, Zimbra was far easier
to create and share calendars, and viewing multiple calendars with
conflict detection is awesome, the redder the indicator, the more conflicts.
3)Zimbra is both free as in speech and beer, but scalix is only beer!
There are plugins such as outlook plugin that are only beer in Zimbra,
but hey, if you are going to use closed source clients, you deserve to
pay for their plugins.
I found Zimbra far more user friendly (for the end user that is, both
have very easy install/config setups for the admin), coupled with speed
and the peace of mind of using open software, I lean heavily towards Zimbra.
Hope that gives you another option without confusing the matter.
Tuxta
PS. you can see for yourself the Zimbra goodness at www.zimbra.com and
watch their flash demo's, very impressive!
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