Having been away for a few weeks and coming back to nearly 1000 messages on the list, and a few surprises :-) I'm a bit late joining in the thanks to Charlie, Dan, Rich, Mike et al (what DID happen to Kirrily??) for all their hard work and support over the years.
As a "paying" customer I've tended to be very quiet on the list, routing my main queries via our support company to Mitel, but I couldn't let this pass without recording my sincere thanks to all at e-smith who came up with the concept and Mitel who've run with it for the last two years or so. The product is fantastic, reasonably priced for an SME (we've got 3 licenced servers) with an excellent support structure. I realise that it now won't be on the development path for Mitel, but look forward to seeing what the community can do. I'm a great believer in GPL, but as an SME with only 4 IT staff to look after around 500 users over 16 sites I need the backup of a commercial enterprise when I get a problem so I'll be sticking with the commercial version for a bit yet (at least on our production servers, test servers are a different matter!). One thing I would like to ask the new team is please don't drop the netatalk Mac support, it's a blessing for companies like ours with a small number of PC's and a large number of Macs to have a central repository for both Mac and PC data and to have a system that can be administered from a Mac web browser. So long Mitel, hello e-smith (I hope so, but let's not get hung up about a name!). Happy Hogmanay to you all and a good and prosperous New Year to both the Mitel team and the contribs.org team and all on the list. Who knows, maybe I'll not be so quiet in the future! -- Richard Bruce Group IT Manager Clyde & Forth Press Ltd -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
