Hi there,
Brad Hards wrote: | On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:44 pm, Brandon Friedman wrote: | |>Hi Folks |> |>[...] |>There would be a lot of work getting kolab intergrated into SME but |>maybe what we should do is take the concepts and get them to work on |>SME? | | I think it might work better if we took the SME additions and bolted them onto | Kolab. The major functionality that is missing from Kolab is the fileserver | bits (Samba, ftpd of some kind, and rsync). | | If we want to go to in a groupware server direction, it might be better to | turn SME into a firewall / gateway box, dropping out the non-essential | functionality.
Hm? For what I understand kolab would make a great extension to e-smith.
[Does someone have a link to a self definition of e-smith? I can't seem to find one on e-smith.org. In case there is none yet: shouldn't we have one? Otherwise we might find out that we all have very different ideas of what e-smith actually is. This could mean that we're trying to run into several directions at the same time - now that we can decide which way to go]
The way I see e-smith is mainly as a server for small and medium enterprises. As such it is the only one in the company/department. And as such it should try to fill these collaborative needs (non-comprehensive list): - - file serving (win, mac, *nix) - - mail in and out (inc. webmail) - - central address book - - ... (all this with a web-based administration)
I think that the gateway functionality is just a minor part in the whole concept. (BTW: I think that for security reasons this is the component that should be the first one to be put on a different box in real world scenarios - which should be the case for most installations anyway (DSL-Routers...); it can be done very easily with another low end box running e.g. http://fli4l.de/ (ISDN, DSL))
Extending the collaborative concept by a workgroup server would be a great idea in my opinion.
There should not be many components missing, anyway - should there?
Brad: did I get you right here: there are some the fileserver bits missing in e-smith? Or does that read "these are the parts that are missing in Kolab"
Maybe I'm the one who's off track, here :-)
Looking forward to taking e-smith (I'd be happy to see us using the original name again) to new horizons!
Regards, K.
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