On 27/07/10 21:26, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: > It's been said before but what the open-source community needs most is a > full replacement for Exchange, with sharing of tasks, public folders and > calendars. Egroupware is good but some people genuinely prefer software > to web-apps and this is one area that's lacking. >
I'd suggest Zimbra, it runs on Ubuntu Server (8.04 at least, it's been a while since I looked at it so they may have 10.04 packages available now). It does come with a desktop app too which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux and it pretty much does what Exchange/Outlook does. > From a security perspective there are a wealth of open-source firewall > solutions out there. I favour IPCop due to the number of very well > written plugins available, but pfSense is also an awesome BSD based > project. I'd second IPCop, two plugins I've used on it are AdvancedProxy and UpdateAccelerator. UpdateAccelerator is particularly useful as it caches things like Windows & Ubuntu update packages and checks for updated versions. > From a personal perspective, on the desktop a major tool that doesn't > have a functional replacement is MS Project. I was using Planner until > recently when i found out some major features were missing (but appeared > to exist!). Another business tool that is missing is a replacement for > AutoCAD - other than those though i don't think there are many > applications that don't have a linux based counterpart. I found that, well with AutoCAD anyway so a Windows machine was kept for this. > > Other than that, I'd like to wish you good luck. Having a client who > specifically wants an open solution is a positive thing....and a great > opportunity to spread the word. I agree, it's good to know that someone knows about the alternatives. At a local charity project I'm helping out with the guy running it insists they're just going to run Ubuntu, luckily for them they don't have any major requirements, just usual office type stuff so Ubuntu fits the bill well. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
