I've got a question concerning finding a solution for Email and Calendering for a mixed environment of Linux and Windows machines.
What I'm trying to find is a solution that provides Email (SSL Imap or similar) to both Evolution and Outlook as a minimum (Mozilla and other clients are a plus but not required) as well as Individual and Group calendering for Evolution and Outlook (this is another important feature). A big bonus would be an optional web interface to these resources, but not at the expense of the desktop clients. There is also a need to have everything authenticate of AD, but that can be done via samba and what ever server is hosting the solution (hopefully). My company won't mind spending some cash on this, and expect to do so anyways. Sadly the default keeps heading towards running MS Exchange since it of course has great support for Outlook and the use the the Ximian connector gets Evolution on board. I personally don't like the idea of having MS Exchange as our goto for Email, specially as our company grows and OpenSource software becomes more and more important to our daily business (which it is..). Here are a few things we have at least partially looked at: MS Exchange: Reasonable support for Evolution (for now) and Outlook. Expensive licensing. How will it scale, and what does MS have planned for us? Scalability in the future? Standards, what standards... Scalix: Support for Outlook and webmail, Evolution connector still in the works for calendering (imap for email available). Can run on Linux. Some cost factor in it. Possible Candidate (Evolution users may just have to wait for the connector to be released). GroupWise: Support for Outlook (mail only) and Evolution (though not clear on shared schedules in Evolution). Can run on Linux. User licenses add up (looking at 50 users now, more in the years to come). Authentication off of AD may be difficult. Strict system requirements (software wise). OpenXchange: Very limited support for Outlook Calendar contacts, etc. Immature software at this point for production use. OpenGroupware: Not very familiar with them. Outlooks support via an a charged for connector, Evolution support limited and beta. Not a likely candidate. Has anyone used any of these in production use and have any opinions, warnings on them? Are there other solutions I need to have a look at? Thanks for any info, I'm still researching, but I value the opinions of those on this list. Thanks. -David -- David A. Cafaro dac(at)cafaro.net Admin to User: "You did what!?!?!" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
