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Exchange Alternatives Round-up

Posted by Hemos on from the good-news-for-the-it-set dept.

richi writes "eWEEK has a review of Linux-based alternatives to MS Exchange: Group Where? Almost Anywhere. Focusing on how well they integrate with Outlook, it looks at Bynari Insight 4.2, CommuniGate Pro 4.2, Gordano 11 and Scalix Server 9.2.1."

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  1. Re:Active Directory integration? by Shakrai · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I run Exchange 2000 servers (again) and I tell ya, other than the dollar cost, these things are great.

    Really? Great you say?

    Is that why my lousy 30 user network needed a dedicated server with a dedicated Windows 2003 license (cost almost as much as the hardware) for Exchange because it wouldn't be "good practice" to install Exchange on the AD box?

    I could replace those two servers with a friggen 486 running Linux with Samba, IMAP and some sort of web based calendaring software. The total software cost on that solution would be zero and the only loss of functionality would be the integration of Outlook.

    Fuck Exchange.

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  2. Re:They forgot about ExchangeIt by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Poster boy of OSS movement and one of reasons why the industry dislikes working with open source zealots.

    Conspiracy, bloated, control, ripoff, proprietary, expensive, DRM, information wants to be free, blah, blah, blah, blah....

  3. Re:They forgot about ExchangeIt by Trigun · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They should rename kolab to kobble. Could they throw more disparate software together?