HP Openmail was purchased by Samsung. Samsung is now selling it. Apparently it has all the features of exchange, runs on unix, and speaks MAPI to Outlook clients. Users won't notice a difference. Supposedly it's cheaper also. Would you have to support the Exchange server, or do you have some other windows admin that would? We run exchange here, but I could care less because I don't have to deal with administration on it. It does suck though, requires lots of lovin' to stay working properly. Having the functionality of Outlook is almost a prerequisite for any company, as long as you have that you're good. I'd take a look at Samsung's Openmail, it gives you full integration w/ outlook, which is what your boss wants. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Rosenberg [mailto:joelr at ellegon.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:44 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Help! The boss wants an exchange server!!! > > > On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:15 am, Christopher A. Gahlon wrote: > > Help!!! The CEO has just mandiated unified > calendaring/scheduling for > > our company. And unless I can find a viable alternative he > says I'll > > be stuck supporting exchange and outpuke. > > Realistically, if you're going to be having folks running > Windows boxes, > you're going to have to support Exchange Server, will be less > than trying to > use any of the few available *nix groupware applications. As > somebody else > pointed out, the scheduling stuff is the bottleneck. Email > can be handled > easily with any number of servers and applications -- but, > with all its > faults, Exchange does do a good job of group calendaring and > scheduling, > particularly the negotiation part, and I've not been able to > find a *nix > replacement that works with Outlook -- and you're not going > to get everybody > involved to drop Outlook, more than likely. > > If you really want to investigate it further than I've been > able to do, you'll > have to start with some alternative that can handle exchange/outlook > meeting/task requests, and I'm not aware of anything that can > -- Microsoft's > use of proprietary formats has, so far, worked for them in this. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >