Although I don't completely agree with this situation, I understand their reasons.
Anyway, this is starting to sound like a TeamWARE specific discussion. If you want, I would like to invite you to join the Independent TeamWARE Users Mailing Lists. I am there, Antony is there too, so we can continue this discussion. And meybe we can also help you with the problem you mentioned you have on the TeamWARE servers.
Regards, Sebastian Paul A. E-mail: proteus@romus.com
Yes, TeamWARE Office is similar with GroupWise and Lotus Domino (mail, document repository, discussion forum, web interface etc). Using any of them just as e-mail servers is not worthing, I have sendmail for that. They are worthwhile only when using all the functionalities.
TeamWARE did only the server port for now since the average user still prefers it's old windoze desktop. But you can anytime use a Web browser as a client from any machine. Check out the demo at http://office.teamw.com. It's a beta for the next version, so expect some glitches, but should give you an idea.
I must disagree with you and bogomipe. I have some years now of using TeamWARE Office and, believe me, it's very easy to send e-mails. You just write the address (or the nickname) in the TO, CC and/or BCC lines, like in any other e-mail:).
As for it's robustness, I run it on a machine with no UPS, I have power surges at least each four nights, but TeamWARE Office re-starts OK every time. TW Office has its share of problems, but reliability is not one of them.
Bogomipe, if your system has problems, I would check NT first, not TeamWARE. Having it now on Linux will make users VERY happy, no more systems failures due to NT.
Yes, big companies to move toward Open Source would be nice, but it won't be soon. Give them a break! They just started to taste Linux, they like it (of course if it brings money:), let's hope that someday they will be ready for "the real thing" (Open Source that is).
Remember that Linux and Open Source did not grew over night. Step by step, that's the way. It's hard to move companies like Fujitsu and TeamWARE to new ideas (especially if they don't understand them:). But the work is in progress. We, on the Independent TeamWARE Users Mailing List, are doing what we can.
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Anyway, this is starting to sound like a TeamWARE specific discussion. If you want, I would like to invite you to join the Independent TeamWARE Users Mailing Lists. I am there, Antony is there too, so we can continue this discussion. And meybe we can also help you with the problem you mentioned you have on the TeamWARE servers.
Regards,
Sebastian Paul A.
E-mail: proteus@romus.com
TeamWARE did only the server port for now since the average user still prefers it's old windoze desktop. But you can anytime use a Web browser as a client from any machine. Check out the demo at http://office.teamw.com. It's a beta for the next version, so expect some glitches, but should give you an idea.
As for it's robustness, I run it on a machine with no UPS, I have power surges at least each four nights, but TeamWARE Office re-starts OK every time. TW Office has its share of problems, but reliability is not one of them.
Bogomipe, if your system has problems, I would check NT first, not TeamWARE. Having it now on Linux will make users VERY happy, no more systems failures due to NT.
Remember that Linux and Open Source did not grew over night. Step by step, that's the way. It's hard to move companies like Fujitsu and TeamWARE to new ideas (especially if they don't understand them :). But the work is in progress. We, on the Independent TeamWARE Users Mailing List, are doing what we can.