Exchange replacements

Mon Sep 19 19:06:50 PDT 2005

I think so. Novell also had a rebranding arrangement with OpenExchange, 
but is apparantly not
continuing that.

>  i think ximian got sucked up by novell, correct?
>
> Jim Hickstein wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Dude.  I just migrated a large university off of OCS and onto Mirapoint.
>>(It's my job, but only after someone makes the decision.)  They hated OCS
>>with a passion, and I don't think it was only the CIO and the Treasurer who
>>did.  They didn't go into specifics.  In general, the CIOs _love_ Mirapoint
>>and the sysadmins are slightly less enthusastic.  (It's a change.)  But I run
>>a specialty email provider in my spare time and I get to sleep at night.
>>That's worth a lot.
>>
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>>
>>>We evaluated about
>>>14 different exchange-clone solutions over the summer. Mirapoint is the
>>>best of them, but a magnitute more
>>>expensive than Scalix.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Ask for a BayLISA member discount!  :-)  (Joking, but only in part.)
>>
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>>>For the Thunderbird integration, there's always Sunbird.. but Sunbird is
>>>pretty worthless right now.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Whatever became of Ximian Evolution?
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