Hi Alan, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2008, James wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> I just found this page: >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/ >> >> Groupware is the general category. My questions are: >> >> Has anyone installed this and if so how do you like it? > > It sucks. It sucks so much I dare not describe how and why for fear of > falling afoul of libel laws. Give it a try, please :) > > Impi tried to use it. Impi is a South African Ubuntu derivative owned by > Canonical intended to be sold to governments and large corporates. > Kolab is infested with super-secret proprietary stuff that is anything > but free software, all due to the way the German government structured > the Kolab tender process. This is incorrect and I don't believe you will be able to clearly identify any "super-secret proprietary stuff" within Kolab. But as said above: Please give it a try. > Apparently it only really works with KMail. To correct this: While Kontact is the primary client, it works fine with Outlook and Thunderbird, too. In addition have the Horde webmailer. Kolab has a pretty good if not the best Cross-OS client coverage in the area of groupware servers. > > If you are really interested in Kolab, I would advise you to do a proof > of concept trial run for real and make up your own mind. Thats probably always good :) Cheers, Gunnar > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Gunnar Wrobel Gentoo Developer __________________C_o_n_t_a_c_t__________________ Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.gunnarwrobel.de IRC: #gentoo-web at freenode.org _________________________________________________ -- [email protected] mailing list
