Opengroupware

An anonymous reader writes: "From the OpenGroupware.org site: the OGo project announces its formation and the release today to the worldwide open source development community of its groupware server software. Gary Frederick, Leader of the OpenOffice.org Groupware Project says: 'Just to be perfectly clear, this is an MS Exchange take-out. OGo is important because it's the missing link in the open source software stack. It's the end of a decade-long effort to map all the key infrastructure and standard desktop applications to free software.' There are also plenty of screenshots of Outlook, Evolution, Korganizer, iCal etc. accessing the server."

Comments

Re:Independence Day

[NineNine]

Our IT department is chearing.

Hang on... you can't spell "cheering" and you have a job?? Something is fucked up here...

Re:Drop-in replacement?

[Malcontent]

No so much for you.

For people who haven't paid for exchange yet.

Insecurity: A Bogus Objection

[bimmergeek]

Today, there is no excuse for an insecure Exchange infrastructure. Show me an insecure Exchange environment and I'll show you a sysadmin group sitting on their lazy asses playing Unreal Tournament instead of maintaining their system.

While it is true that the pre-Service Pack 1 version of Exchange 2000 and Outlook 2000 (as well as other MS apps) had security flaws, today's current configuration of Windows Server 2000 SP3 and Exchange SP3 is much more secure. Plus, the implementation of Windows Update helps administrators keep systems up-to-date and secure. MS has been great about pushing security updates out quickly.

Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 are fantastic applications with much stronger security.

The Exchange systems that have problems today are managed by admins who do not update their servers, strip suspect attachments , etc. I'm sure there are OSS patches and updates that are necessary to keep OSS servers secure.

So, OSS bigots, system insecurity is not inherent in MS products. It exists in all software to varying degrees. It's time for the /. OSS bigots to stop relying on tribal knowledge and information that is 3 years old.