Exchange replacements

Mon Sep 19 18:41:58 PDT 2005

Roy S. Rapoport wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 06:05:00PM -0700, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
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>>Patti,
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>>Scalix, Mirapoint, and Communigate are the best of breed.. Supposedly 
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>We've not been incredibly impressed here with Communigate (I don't mean
>that as a euphemism for "it really really sucked," just ... eh).  On the
>other hand, I just hired a mail engineering that had some work with UC
>Berkeley's efforts at using Communigate, and mentioning the product to him
>is a good way to get him to spit blood.  
>
>-roy
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>

Roy,

Ditto on Communigate. I haven't been overly impressed with them either. 
They definitely get
points for their staying power... I started seeing their booths at 
conferences a decade ago.  Their
interface is ugly, and ambigious. Some simple tasks are very 
unintuitive, like selecting the type
of mailbox an account should use, but easily remediedif you read the 
directions (gasp).

Communigate does have the added bonus of being one of three (out of the 
20ish) solutions we reviewed
that was built for an ASP-like environment.. Which meant truely separate 
LDAP domains.  The only
other two were Bynari and Mirapoint.

Scalix has hope, though, since it was built on HP's OpenMail codebase.  
They all need work. Honestly,
Exchange is the best solution for this problem right now.

Michael T. Halligan
Chief Technology Officer
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