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Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source
Fjan11 writes "Over 150 man-years of work were added to the Open Source community today when Zarafa decided to put their successful Exchange server replacement under GPLv3. This is not just the typical mail-server-that-works-with-Outlook, it is the whole package — including 100% MAPI, web access, tasks, iCal and Activesync. (The native syncing works great with my iPhone!) Binaries and source are available for all major Linux distros."
That's right, Microsoft: open source software can gun for you too, motherfuckers!
Linux is for the garbage can!
Sweet! What won't Linux run on these days?
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
If I had some mod points I would give you one for funny. Ignorant, but funny.
Office Depot, Office Max, and Staples reported a shortage of office chairs in the supply chain. When asked, representatives were unsure to the exact nature of the shortage.
"According to our suppliers, someone in Redmond, Washington has decided to corner the market on office chairs," one company spokesman said.
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This just in! According to NORAD, the nation's defense system went on alert after controllers detected a large number of unknown flying objects coming from the Pacific Northwest. While the status has not entered DEFCON 1, a spokesman for the Defense Department assured the public that this was a precautionary measure as the objects themselves do not appear to be very large and that they originated from the Northwest rules out an nuclear attack from either China or the former Soviet Union.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
can be measured to be 1050 dog-years of work.
Can you imagine a Beowolf cluster of those? Take THAT, big iron.
[citation needed]
DEFINITELY
(If you're gonna write a word in all caps, spell it right :-) )
Only because the people with Linux experience and the people with condom experience are disjoint sets.
>[A]n open source alternative to Exchange would not have Exchange's arbitrary limitations
Oops... if it's not bug-for-bug compatible, it's going to be a problem with some PHB.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
'OWA?
Drop in replacement, you say? Will MOSS or CRM play with it? Will it pick up AD rules and GPOs? What about BCM and Project Server? '
Can you say bloat, bloat, and more bloat?
Quick! I need a baby in a month! Find me 9 women!
What sort of misguided geek thinks it's a good idea to work on a project which facilitates the rest of us getting invited to meetings?
OK ... I'm better now.
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
Aha, but it's not in ALL CAPS, is it?
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
iPhone...Activesync...in one sentence? Related? Actually...working together?
I'm sorry guys, but my head is spinning...gonna get me a Tylenol...quickly.
Isn't it so that 'iPhone' goes with 'Apple' and 'Activesync' goes with Microsoft?
Next they're going to tell me that you can run Windows XP on a MacBook. Oh well...
The Hacker's Guide To The Kernel: Don't panic()!
Point of order: I'd like to believe that most slashdotters don't shit in their sleep. Or if they do, I'd like to never ever think about it again.
more of the same on Twitter.
Indeed! There's been a recent string of incidents reported of rogue, black-hat office admins maliciously filling their bosses' calendars with meetings HE NEVER AUTHORIZED, yet was forced to appear at, even if no one else was there! And some execs were reprimanded - even dismissed - because they couldn't provide sufficient evidence that they were not the person who authorized such meetings. It chills the spine to think of how much executive time is being wasted through an easily patched exploit such as this, and of how many lives are thrown into chaos in the aftermath.