Chris Hedemark on Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:11:06 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Anyone tried replacing Exchange lately?


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On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 02:37 PM, W. Chris Shank wrote:

I need to replace a MS Exchange 5.5 server and was wondering if anyone has
any hands on experience with the alternatives, including: Bynari, Samsung
Contact, Kolab, SuSE Openexchange, others?

You don't know how much I'd love to right now. Exchange is proving to be terribly expensive to us when you figure in admin overhead, downtime, etc.


I put the SuSE option in front of $BOSS as something to explore but methinks it is too thick a political issue to ever be explored (replacing Exchange would, in effect, put egg on the face of whoever wanted Exchange there in the first place). So we go on living with an intermittently functional groupware server.

Luckily - for my implimenation, I only need to replace these functions in
Exchange: email, vacation calendar, shared contacts database. So I think
it would be easier for me to use a collection of alternatives instead of
one massive tool, but it might be nice to be able to continue to use
Outlook (though not a requirement).

The moment you say that you can live with a loose collection of smaller tools for each function is the moment a whole new world of possibilities opens up.


I've been increasingly becoming a fan of LDAP for this sort of thing. Use a loose collection of tools that all store stuff in LDAP to tie them together. Not saying mail gets stored in LDAP, but certainly metadata can go there about the user.
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