Exchange replacements

Tue Sep 20 15:47:49 PDT 2005

i believe contact is the old hp openmail code. industry rumor is that hp 
licensed it to two peeps from my knowledge - scalix and samsung.

vraptor at employees.org wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, 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.
>
>
> I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but Samsung Contact
> appears to be getting good press:
>
> http://www.samsungcontact.com/en/
>
> I have not used it, but it looks like it's doing the right things
> from the documentation.  Supposedly it's more MAPI compliant than
> Exchange.
>
> Good luck with the search--
> =Nadine=

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