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Yet Another Exchange Killer?

Posted by michael on from the optimism-springs-eternal dept.

jmertic writes "SuSE Linux now has the latest Exchange killer, but this time for Exchange Server. Openexchange Server is designed to be a drop in replacement for Exchange 5.5 users who don't want to pay the MS tax of going to Exchange 2000. They say it will be available mid November."

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  1. Prediction: It will be available in november.. by mindstrm · · Score: 3, Funny

    with POP3 functionality.

    Everything else will be "Planned for the future" and they will be recruiting programmers.

  2. But I've got too much money! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've got to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days so I can inheirit 300 million! I can't give any away to charity, and I can't tell anyone why I'm doing it! (shhh.)

    MS Exchange is perfect for my needs! I can pick up a 1000 seat licence and a couple of XP Advanced Servers and blow my wad right there! Plus, I can hire a bunch of IT guys to keep up with bugs and patches - ooooh, don't kill Exchange!

    Signed, Brewster
    (a.k.a Richard Prior)

    1. Re:But I've got too much money! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      actually if you blow your wad on microsoft software, you won't be hiring real IT personnel for support.

      if you are anything like a typical company, you'll spend thousands upon thousands on ms software and licensing...

      and about $8/hour for a couple of kids to reboot the servers every so often.

    2. Re:But I've got too much money! by Chemical · · Score: 2, Funny

      Brewster would have had no problems in 1999. Most Dotcoms burnt through way more than $30 million, and have absoultely nothing to show for it. All he would have to do is make sure everything was leased.

  3. Something I don't get by silhouette · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't understand why people are always talking about the latest and greatest exchange killer.

    There was already an exchange killer. It was called Nimda.

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  4. Exchange SuSE by Rik+van+Riel · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... so, who's going to print the shirts ? ;)

  5. Timing is everything :-/ by tulare · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just my luck - I'm in the middle of downloading SuSe from one of the mirrors, and it goes and gets slashdotted. What are the odds?

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  6. Shoulda called it Foreign Exchange... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    together with Samba and cxoffice, you can now run LookOut and Exploder to get full MS virus capability for each user, on Linux...

  7. Re:MS Tax? by Dragon213 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But have you tried to open any doc files from someone that has "upgraded" to Office 2000? Almost impossible unless that person has the sense-of-mind to save it in the old 97 Office format..........

    Perhaps I'm wrong, but that fits the defination of "practically unusable" to me. Not to mention being an "MS Tax"...

    "To open newer Office files, you will have to upgrade to Office 2000. This 'upgrade' will cost you all of your privicy rights (EULA), everything that's in your bank account (the actual monitary cost), and all your hair (from frustruation)."

    "Thanks for calling Microsoft Tech Support, how can we mug you..I mean, help you...today?"

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  8. Re:MAPI support? by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 4, Funny
    I looked through the site, and could see no sign of native MAPI support - rather, you have the usual collection of IMAP, POP3, SMTP, etc. protocols.

    Yeah, those useless IETF standards!

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  9. No Need by BurritoWarrior · · Score: 5, Funny

    I already have an Exchange replacement.

    Try and keep it hush hush, OK?

    It's called Lotus Notes. Shhhhh.

  10. Whats wrong with Novell Groupwise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'll tell you what's wrong.

    Its suck is high, and it comes from a company that won't last 2 more years.

    Other than that, its terrific.

  11. Exchange who? by krokodil · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've heard about exchange students, but exchange killers!?

  12. Another killer ? by Lord+Sauron · · Score: 3, Funny

    As if the shootings in DC were not enough.

  13. Re:Obvioulsy you've never used Exchange by mikewren420 · · Score: 2, Funny

    user: wtf? are you nuts. aren't our win2k servers the ones that all went down because of that mimlinda, in lisa and melissa and code red, .. is there anything else that will let me use ms office and its nifty features such a schedule sharing and such.

    Back that anti-M$ /. train up.... Don't get me wrong; I hate M$ as much as the next geek, but Exchange is the only solution (at the time) that fit my client's needs. Period. FWIW, my Exchange server never went offline because of any of the above exploits...

    Hey d00d, were you doing *your* job as a diligant admin, to keep your client's Exchange box online? Sounds like we already have the answers. 20 minutes with Norton and a log parser would have found any liability... it sounds like you waited until your client called *you* about a down server, after it's much too late... of course, by that point, you already looked like the lame Exchange wannabe you are.... but it's always much easier to blame M$ and Exchange for this, right?