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  1. Suse Linux by digitaltraveller · · Score: 3, Informative · on SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional Released

    Do the freely downloadable ISO images contain Suse's OpenExchange mail/groupware server?

    The other ones seem to lack a bit of pizazz. The two major competitors seem to be the
    BillWorkgroup (as in Gates) server and the unencumbered Netline version of OpenExchange which IIRC is derived from the Suse OPX codebase.

    Everything else I looked at is crap. I checked out Communigate Pro (a commercial product) and though it looked mostly professional, it had a bunch of features that simply weren't available in Outlook. I'd consider tolerating that from a free software project but not a proprietary offering.

  2. Exchange4Linux? by pmsr · · Score: 2, Interesting · on SUSE Openexchange Under GPL
    What about Exchange4Linux? The Outlook connector is not free, but that doesn't come as a surprise.

    http://www.billworkgroup.org/billworkgroup/home

    /Pedro

  3. exchange4linux by leonbrooks · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacements?

    It says "Welcome to the Bill Workgroup Server and exchange4linux website" and right on the front page adds "BILL Open Workgroup Server is under the GNU public licence. BILL is also part of the exchange4linux (exchange for linux) project on sourceforge.net [...] exchange4linux/BILL now includes support for Meeting Invitations and Free/Busy and the forwarding of all Outlook Objects in e-mail."

    This links to the exchange4linux SourceForge page, and unlike OSER has actual downloads and complete setup instruction on it. I'm guessing that this BILL comes from Bill Hughes, an e4l author.

  4. Bill workgroup server by wimme · · Score: 5, Informative · on Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacements?

    There's something called BILL workgroup server, and it acts as an exchange replacement.
    Here is the url www.billworkgroup.org

  5. Other solutions by j-turkey · · Score: 1 · on SuSE's OpenExchange and Windows Integration?

    If you just need email, a shared directory service, and a shared calendar (and not the rest of the Exchange features) there are a number of solutions out there.

    Check out setting up qmail with sqwebmail, and OpenLDAP for directrory service. You are still missing the calendar, and there are a few packages that should support the calendar (none of which I have used). Check out Amphora (Light).

    Also, check out the free Exchange4Linux Bill and the not-so-free Exchange4Linux version. I believe that these are all cheaper than SUSE's groupware.

    Hope this helps.

    --Turkey
  6. Re:Open protocols are even more important by maggard · · Score: 2 · on Will Evolution Exchange Microsoft?
    Yet a much more important issue is the other direction - open and freely accessible groupware protocols implemented by a free-as-in-speech server solution, with Outlook connectivity provided by a Windoze plugin. For example, the Bill Workgroup Server takes this approach.
    Doesn't look so "open" to me! From their FAQ:
    Is the MAPI Service Provider for Outlook (TM) also open source? NO, all code that's written for Windows is closed source. You can get a 30 day test licence for free. After this trial period, you have to buy a licence at N&H or an authorized reseller.
    The server portion may be open but the middleware portion is closed tight as a drum and that's what would make it it all usefull. Actually it all reads pretty disengenious to me, ballyhooing free & open but keeping the good part closed and pricey.

  7. Open protocols are even more important by DocSnyder · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Will Evolution Exchange Microsoft?
    Both at work and at home, Evolution is my primary email and PIM software. It is a really good idea for Ximian to provide a plugin capable of talking to a Microsoft Exchange server through its proprietary interfaces.

    Yet a much more important issue is the other direction - open and freely accessible groupware protocols implemented by a free-as-in-speech server solution, with Outlook connectivity provided by a Windoze plugin. For example, the Bill Workgroup Server takes this approach.

    Microsoft Exchange is not the only major proprietary groupware solution - Lotus Notes is here to stay, to be even more proprietary - it's quite impossible to read or write Lotus NSF files with anything but Lotus software. Free groupware standards exist and should be used by anyone. The user should have free choice between PHPgroupware, Evolution, Outlook and Lotus Notes, similar to IMAP providing choice between lots of different email clients.

  8. A similar free product by cuvavu · · Score: 3, Informative · on InsightConnector - A Viable Exchange Alternative?

    The Bill workgroup server) seems to do the mapi groupware type thing, I guess combining this with an imap mail server and an ldap (for contacts etc) server would do you for most everything that exchange does