We used Zimbra. At least four years ago it was difficult to maintain and the support was appalling, our CIO lost a lot of hair over it.
On 30 September 2014 15:50, [email protected] <[email protected] > wrote: > On 30 September 2014 at 15:30 Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If they already use Microsoft Office (and especially if they already > > subscribe to Office 365) then Yammer is a service that is specifically > > designed to be a corporate social network at the Office 365 Mid-Size > Business > > tier. I've never used it though and naturally it's a service, not > something > > you can run yourself on your own hardware. > > > > We are looking for a solution that can be hosted within our Corporate > network, > preferably on Linux servers. > > > > > I've had some brief exposure to Atlassians Confluence software, which > you can > > buy to self-host or pay for monthly per user as a service and it seems > pretty > > good, though like all things it has a bit of a learning curve. I've only > > barely used it though, so can't say much about it other than people I > work > > with have given it very high praise. It's probably better if you buy > into the > > rest of Atlassian's suite of tools like Jira and Hipchat, etc but by > itself I > > don't imagine it's too bad. > > > > I don't think having to pay is the issue; it's about having it hosted on > our > network. > > > > > Speaking of Hipchat, that might actually fit the bill. It's basically > an IRC > > style private chatroom client, but depending on the plans you get (and > you can > > even use it for free with unlimited users if I recall) when you attach > images > > or files to messages, they stay in the system so they can be referred > back to, > > at least for a time. If what they need is something more real-time > rather than > > a long-term document storage/sharing system, then that might work out > well for > > them. I use hipchat extensively at work for communicating with my team, > > sharing files, talking to clients, holding meetings, etc and find I > rarely use > > anything else for sharing things, getting feedback or collaborating on > > projects. I can highly recommend it, and since you can trial it for > free, if > > it sounds like it might fit the bill, I'd encourage you to investigate > it. We > > also use their dev API to feed in info from our various monitoring tools > for > > servers, software builds, support tickets, etc so it acts a company-wide > > notification system as well as shared communications platform. > > > > Thanks for the ideas. We will be investigating all of them. > > Anyone come across Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/)? > > > Terry Coles > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
