As per another posters question, how much of exchange do you want to replace?
I'm not a big MS fan in the scheme of things, but having looked at replacing exchange with FOSS on a couple of sites it's not as simple as it first appears to replicate all of what exchange does. For all it's flaws it is quite a good messaging platform. Simple messaging and calendars can be done using Imap and vCalendar with apache/ftp setup. Then you start looking at resource booking, shared tasks, group contacts, global and shared private address books, workflow routing, journalling, delegated access, clustered datastores.... It's all doable, but you wind up with a terribly cobbled together solution that is difficult to support, and still not as good as Exchange. And if you're thinking of replacing/replicating Exchange 2007 I think you'd be out of luck, that beast has no parallel in the FOSS world yet in terms of functionality or convergence. Just my 2c worth.. On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:21 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: > Hopefully this isn't a repeat, Firefox crashed as I was sending. > > Is there a good (read: easy to set up) replacement for MS Exchange in > the linux world? Something that allows connection from Outlook? > > We have an old windows 2000 server that is likely to need upgrading > and, as we are gradually moving the servers to linux, this would be a > good next step. > > Kerry > > >
