Claus Riemann wrote: > > It's a fine overview... The problem is that there is no real alternative > to Lotus Domino. But this is not your fault. :-) > > Anyway: Anyone knows a project aiming to solve this? (You have something like > DB files on the server and defines your views on this.) Anyone knows what decision > HP has taken on OpenMail? A long time ago they were thinking about makeing it > OpenSource... > > --cla
Unless there have been some underground developments, OpenMail is toast. From their website: "HP will support our customers using versions 6.0 and 7.0 of the product for the next five years until March 31st 2006. The new 7.0 release further strengthens OpenMail's ability to support thousands of users per server and provide rich functionality when connected to the Outlook client. Support for OpenMail 5.10 continues until 31st October 2001." I've been hunting for the same thing as many other people here: a replacement for Microsoft Exchange's calendar and contacts functionality. I support ~25 computers as a volunteer at my church, and we don't have the money to spend on NT, Exchange and Exchange Client licenses. Right now, we're running MS Outlook (*not* my decision) POPing a Linux server for mail. The question that keeps coming up at my office (IT support for a non-profit hospital) is how to replace Microsoft Exchange's mail functions with something cheaper. The main advantage of Exchange is it's mail notification features: the client doesn't have to continually query the server to see if new mail is available; the server tells the client instead. That routine in itself can save MUCH bandwidth on a network that starts with gigabit backbone and ends with many 56K frame-relays with several mail clients at the end of each 56K line. (we even have one location connecting three PCs and a network printer across a pair of 14.4K async dial-up routers...OUCH!) Anyone have any suggestions/thoughts on replacing this type of setup? I'm not a programmer (except with PHP) and wouldn't know were to begin on sockets or Win32 application development....
