Exchange replacements

Mon Sep 19 18:05:00 PDT 2005

Patti,

Scalix, Mirapoint, and Communigate are the best of breed.. Supposedly 
Oracle's collaboration suite is
really good, but even with TCO considerations, Exchange is a fraction of 
Oracle's cost. We evaluated about
14 different exchange-clone solutions over the summer. Mirapoint is the 
best of them, but a magnitute more
expensive than Scalix.

For the Thunderbird integration, there's always Sunbird.. but Sunbird is 
pretty worthless right now.

Patti Ames wrote:

>I'm looking at enterprise-grade email/calendar servers that work well
>with Outlook. I tried Scalix - if everything else is like that, I'm
>going to find myself running Exchange pretty soon. :\
>
>What have you all used to satisfy management's need to calendar and
>reserve conference rooms inside of Outlook? Since my userbase are 
>already pretty solidly occupying PSTs, easy migration is key. (Scalix
>crashed Outlook or popped up virus warnings on attempts to merge old
>contacts and calendar with the Scalix one.)
>
>The other half of my users use Thunderbird, so it would be great if 
>they could, in some way, also schedule and find out about meetings and 
>conference room availability. 
>  
>

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