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Exchange Comes To Linux As OpenChange
joesmart writes to tell us that new work on OpenChange and KDE seeks to bridge the gap between groupware compatibility and open source. KDE developer Brad Hards spoke at the Linux.conf.au conference and said the goal of OpenChange is to implement the Microsoft Exchange protocols as they are used by Outlook. "OpenChange has client and server-side libraries for Exchange integration and relies heavily on code developed for Samba 4. It is open source software licensed under the GPL version 3. Hards said more work is being done on the client side and 'we have code for the server,' but estimates another 12 months of development is required to produce an OpenChange server ready for production."
The EU competition court has put a stop to that one and this is also how Samba got all the M$ protocol interface documentation.
Yeah, and maybe in 2009 they'll ship a product that will emulate an environment released NINE YEARS AGO. Not trying to be flamebait but really, Samba4 is pretty much a complete irrelevance these days. Samba3 was awesome back when I was using it... years and years ago.