Robert Cooper wrote:
> 
> 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."
>[...]

Oops. I thought the last info is like this:

http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/buzz/0046.html
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2693104,00.html
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/03/12/010312oppetreley.xml

Maybe they are no longer in fear of Microsoft and will continue
their work...

>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
>[...]

This is one of the problems of the OpenSource community...
There are not enough 'real world enterprise' solutions... But we are leaving 
the discussion of the original thread. :-)

  --cla

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