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Exchange Comes To Linux As OpenChange

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the native-not-emulated dept.

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."

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  1. It's Change We Can Belive In by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's Change We Can Belive In

    HOPE

  2. And in 10 years... by wampus · · Score: -1, Troll

    When they hit 1.0, it will be 80% compatible with Exchange as it is today.

  3. Re:Here we go again..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In these times we are living in, with the end of the Capitalism as we knew it, and a huge economic depression, I don't think any serious business will want to spend time with a bunch of OSS geeks and our failure-prone apps. The guessing work involved on an OSS deployment takes too much time and businesses just don't have the time and the money to waste with nice "save the world" types of software.
    So, as the majority of the companies will stick with MS software, thanks to the professional support and as they already have them deployed and don't have to change their business rule, I guess the initiative of making a fully interoperable Exchange Unix based alternative is valid.
    I know we geeks will always dream of the "Year of the Linux", but as the western civilization is ending I don't think there is enough time to keep those dreams anymore...

  4. Re:Here we go again..... by ozric99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.