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On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:18, Graham monk wrote:
> Hi guys
> Seen this?
> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1138118
yes, very exciting stuff... it'll be interesting to see the general take-up of
this offering by the market...
the kolab server stuff that SuSe will packaging and marketing as an exchange
server replacement is also pretty compelling. i have a user account on a
kolab server right now and while i haven't played around with it all that
much, it has a decent web interface for end user configuration (e.g. changing
your password and other info) and works seamlessly with the apps that support
pop/imap/smtp/calendaring ....
it seems to me that SuSe is readying to launch a full scale assault on
Microsoft's current stronghold: the workgroup. that means desktop and
workgroup servers (e.g. exchange.) this makes lots of sense if that is their
intentions since Linux works wonderfully at that scale (probably best of
breed these days) and on the hardware people already have.
to me this makes much more sense than a simple one-dimensional "desktop push".
it would open the door for the smaller IT outsourcing shops to provide Linux
as a solution (and get the pricing benefits of same) as well since they could
lay down Linux from front to back in an environment: desktops and
workstations, workgroup servers, corporate servers and depending on the
application even enterprise servers.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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