-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is more than just providing full Exchange capability. As this is a commercial app it is competing with Exchange without the "advantage" that comes with being a fully open source solution (this particular client puts a premium on FLOSS projects, which has far exceeded their expectations in the past).
To be fair, no decision has been made, and Scalix does get to go toe to toe with Exchange in a proof of concept deployment. The mobile client solution is quite ugly though (http://www.notifycorp.com/index.htm). I have been keeping a lot of notes, so I when this project completes, I will likely be doing a messaging/collaboration shootout article. Maybe I will get Jon to do the writing since my style is somewhat dry and "academic", in the sleep aid sort of way. jon wrote: > Kevin Anderson wrote: >> It works well in a mixed environment, with MAPI clients for Outlook and >> Evolution, plus a fantastic webclient for others. Obviously you can >> also use IMAP or POP as well. >> > "Well" is the operative word. It all goes back to requirement. In our > shop, for example. we've ditched Scalix because there doesn't appear to > be any way to share tasks between Outlook users and the web interface > users. That's a requirement for us and it doesn't look like Scalix can > meet it (or so I'm told, I will admit to not being able to test this as > I don't have a copy of Outlook anywhere in my life). For situations > where that's not a requirement it won't be an issue. Of course if it was > me, my requirement would be to ditch Outlook, but I don't drive this boat. > > I spent about 4 hours one day attempting to install the Evo connector. > It's one of those things that works for some people, not for others, and > there's no solution for those that it doesn't work for. Kind of like > some wifi cards under Linux :) > > I'm always wary of things that work "well". The thing(s) that don't work > might be a show stopper for me. Each requirement has to be mapped to a > specific functionality. For a given site, when most of the requirements > can be mapped to working functionality then an app can be deemed to > "work well". Prior to that work being done that statement cannot be made > outside of a marketing pamphlet. >> Scalix 11.0.0 has some serious bugs in it, it was a pretty major change. >> 11.0.1 was released last night, and does address the majority of them. >> >> > Good to hear, I'll tell Mike. > > J > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFw2k/wRXgH3rKGfMRAto/AKCvuw14r4HbKn4E1rlmtewhUkWcZQCeImuH wT67uVLJkQme2RLibIRKlfA= =jx+h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
