> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange Server & Outlook 2000
> > Ok should have added something to my scope/requirments... > All GPL... not > > paying for software, if I wanted to do that I'd just > licence MS Exchange > > server (thou I think I've already done that anyway). > I think you'll find this is an area where people are taking a > little bit > of cream in terms of development and money. I guess having fully > featured groupware is a feature that appeals most to > corporates, who are > usually prepared to pay something. Yes. I have used it in the corporate enviornment and see the benefits past that... hence why I'm looking to replace my Exchange Server platform with something more afordable so others can benefit as well. > prices aren't too steep: > > for connecting your linux desktop evolution client to exch > server - Ximian > Connector $69 US (actually that is steeper than I thought) > > for connecting your windows outlook client to an imap server Insight > Connector - $39 US > > for SKYRiX 5 ZideStore/ZideLook to connect either evolution or outlook > to OpenGroupware.org - 55EUR per seat for a 5 user license.(couldn't > see single user) > > By the way after reading about Zide, i am not sure that OpenGroupware > will work properly for outlook/evolution without this addon, but I may > be confused! WOW! Thanks for doing all that research Nick! I think next I need to actually see some of these things running to get a beter idea. As I'm working on a bunch of projects at present I won't get to this as quickly as you did the research. > It would be interesting to compare the licensing costs of a few > combinations, against an exchange server. i don't have those > figures. i > guess the most realistic in NZ is 5-100 users? (take a look > at the stats > on the size of NZ businesses, they are small compared to overseas.) Agreed... most NZ orginsations from small business to the rugby club are only in the 5 to 100 user size. > [1] frankly they may be right, there is damn all open source stuff > available in this area, and mapi programming is a shit, Don't talk to me about mapi programming unless you've done shit loads and know just how much it all sux! :p :) /me runs and hides from mapi.... Truth be told I've used a few different tools for doing stuff with mail and once I got the hang of them I didn't find it that hard... no harder than I'm finding doing stuff in Linux - it's just a different way of doing things. Cheers Don
