E-mail/groupware opinion

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:
>Any you folks using Scalix or Zimbra as an alternative to MS Exchange? We have 
>a consultant firm pushing Exchange on us and our president is looking 
>favorably at it. Zimbra and Scalix look like good alternatives. We're looking 
>for a hosted solution as I don't have the resources (or time) to manage an 
>e-mail/groupware server on site.

I've been doing some work with Zimbra, and it seems like a good
solution.  I can't say much about it from the user's standpoint
since I've never used any of the Micro$oft virus products.

It's pretty straightforward to install on supported systems.  We
have installed it on ubuntu and Centos 4.5 (it's not out yet for
RHEL5/Centos5 but it's supposed to be RSN).

I don't particularly like the way it takes over the machine making
it somewhat interesting integrating tools I've built over the
years, and would recommend installing it on a dedicated machine.

Bill
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