[SLL] Groupware servers

[Mark Ballinger]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:35 PM, John Aldrich <jmaldrich at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008, Kurt Buff wrote:
>> Many...
>>
>> Zimbra, Zarafa, Scalix, OSER, OpenChange, Open-Xchange, and there are
>> probably a few others
>>
> Let me rephrase... :-) Any that you have experience with and would recommend?
> I've been "playing" with linux for the past few years (starting with RH5, I
> think it was) but I'm not sure I could admin a production machine. :-)

I installed Zimbra at an exchange-replacement site, and they moved on
to Groupwise.  I then installed Zimbra as a dovecot/squirrelmail
replacement, and they later moved to Exchange!

So, while I thought zimbra was really sweet (easy to manage, lots of
nice features), the users really missed certain exchange features.
Zimbra does offer a community version, so throw that up on a vmware
image and try it out.  Have your users really try it out and see
what's broken for them.

I'm not clear if you're really asking this, but managing a linux
machine as a production machine was not the issue.  I have been
admin-ing several linux machines for years in real production
settings, and it's never been difficult.