Exchange replacements

Mon Sep 19 18:43:53 PDT 2005

Happy to discuss Mirapoint with you, Patti. I work at the company and am 
located in Bay area.

Michael T. Halligan wrote:

> 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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