Focus on the core technology that makes Microsoft infrastructure take deep roots. They are (IMO):
1) Exchange 2) Active Directory 3) Sharepoint Attacking these is not strictly a server issue. For many people, they couldn't care less about their operating system as long as they've got their MS Office/Outlook running. The Wine team is part of the solution, but for those devs who work for Codeweavers, they seem to reserve their enterprise efforts for getting Office only for the (partially) closed Crossover product. For Exchange, the non-free version of Zimbra works great for Outlook connectivity. For Sharepoint, the non-free layer on Plone by Enfold Systems is a great alternative except that one of the more attractive features Enfold offers (versioning) is only available on their Windows product. For those that are learned, I know versioning exists for Plone in general. I'm talking about specifically the Enfold products. By the way, anybody noticing a trend yet for the enterprise-class versions of software that can fill a niche occupied by Microsoft? The problem is that creating fully open source software to fill enterprise niches is non-trivial and the best model of it so far I've seen is Samba. The Samba team deserves some serious credit for the work they've done. If only there were more billionaires putting their money towards open source software to pay lots of programmers to attack the problems, all of these pieces of the puzzle could be more quickly solved. On the off chance that anybody is good friends with Warren Buffett, see if you can convince him to make significant investment into Yahoo with strings attached so that they will open source all of Zimbra. That would really turbo charge this idea. Hey, it could happen. Aaron Kincer On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have put some text for Bug 0 up at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Bug0#preview . I didn't get into the > solutions we worked on at UDS, thinking this is what bug report followup > comments are for and the body was already too long. > > Edit away people, but please don't try to turn it into a classic bug > report. This bug has a different purpose :-) > > Regards, > > -- > Dan Shearer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam >
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