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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."
five minutes and one picture has shown up...thank god for tabs
I thought the first rule of programming was "you don't talk about programming."
The second rule of programming is, "you DO NOT talk about programming!"
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
GroupWise 4.1 was the first Novell version, 1994.
In 1990 "WordPerfect Office 3.0" had collaborative features and was ported to UNIX, and in 1992 it became more robust and even ended up on VMS (3.1).
HP OpenMail and Lotus Notes had their first versions in 1989.
To credit "WordPerfect Office" at any version before 3.x as enterprise GroupWare would be stretching it. Though, these versions did appear first in 1987/1988.
Collaborative messaging in my estimation really began on a serious level with HP OpenMail. To date, there are few unified standards compliant messaging solutions that even come close. Carly Fucker Fiorina was told by her S&M master, Gates, to dump OpenMAIL. It is now Samsung Contact.
Microsoft Mail and Microsoft Exchange are fucking useless, and scale horribly and have MTAs that viruses have fun with. Comparing Microsoft scalability to serious UNIX hardware available to Notes and formerly to OpenMAIL doesn't make for a good corporate strategy.
In light of the fact that Samsung isn't a software company, the only thing that comes to mind as a real mail server at this point is: Bynari (horrible customer support) and probably the best and most scalable standards compliant messaging solution, Stalker Communigate Pro Messaging Server/
If I had to choose a huge messaging system at this point, I would probably go with Lotus. Nothing beats IBM know how. Well, it surely beats Samsung, Microsoft. Novell GroupWise is a fine product, but Novell's bizarre corporate strategy and past blunders makes them an outcast for the time being, but their directory services are SECOND TO NONE. Nothing beats NDS.
I would consider Communigate, Notes and GroupWise + NDS as the only real collaborative messaging servers left. Nothing beats disaster recovery on OpenMAIL (I've seen it run on full volumes and on failing disks gracefully), but since Carly sold HP out, its on ice for the time being.
Sorry to be repetitive, but people should look at more options. Also, Notes has the added capability to be an application deployment platform, database and web application server.