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Yet Another Exchange Killer?
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."
why don't you people stop making like you're being forced to buy more from Microsoft? The only real taxes are those collected by the government with guns to back them up.
Microsoft doesn't come close to this.
Of course so far it aint happening but like President Bush has tought the nation just repeat
your lies long enough and some people believe that they are the truth.
Its a drop in replacement, with groupware featured supplied by a different third party
seperate from email.
So far I have not seen any mention in this product of automatic migrating of all user content?
Im my opinion a 'drop in' replacement would have the ability to migrate all user content from existing infrastructure into the new infrastructure.
What this is a dang expensive hodge podge of
technology, whos features, can somewhat match what Exchange has but not with the same integration and user interface tools .
In the article I read earlier they basically even admit that yes you can probably cobble together this stuff yourself a lot cheaper.
So instead of going with Exhcange, and not have to have a painfull transistion, retraining your thousands of users, etc, you go out pay half or a bit more than for upgrading Exchange, sell your soul to a version 1.0, dont know if we will survive solution, which will probably not feature any migration possiblities, if in fact there is no version 2.0
Either go full opensource, or just choose one of the established players in this field, at least if you have a sizeable number of users.