On 5/9/07, Catherine Carminati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all I work at a company that has about 160 users, we are thinking of upgrading our servers, one of them being the mail server. what i would like to find out is if anyone works with Groupwise 7 and if you would recommend the product. Almost all our users use Outlook 2000 / outlook xp / outlook 2003 and outlook 2007, some also use outlook express. I have also read about Open-xchange. anyone using the product?
GroupWise is a really fine corporate collaboration product. It's scaleable (which you don't really care about, I realize) and easy to manage. The client has gotten better and better, and there are some quite exciting new features coming in the version due end of year (code name Bonobo, or something like that). Runs great on SLES. Requires edirectory (this is one of the things that is changing, I think in the next version, or two) and management via console one, which is a bit of a clunky java util. If your users are used to OutLook, then you can either continue using that with the GroupWise "connector", or (what I would suggest) move them to the native client, as it is easier to support is familiar enough that users will get used to it. If you try to use the Outlook/GW connector, there are some compromises (not everything works exactly as it does in either product on it's own) and there MAY be some issues with stability. I have not used it ... I know that earlier versions were .... a challenge in some ways. I have also heard it has gotten better. The GW client (like OutLook) is *NOT* a strong email client, from the traditional nix point of view ... it's monolithic, doesn't have strong scripting or command line options, defaults to top-posting, etc etc etc .... but if your users are used to Outlook they will understand and like the GW approach. I've never used Open-xchange but what I have *heard* is that it is quite nice, but not as polished, not as complete feature-wise for collaboration, etc ... but I don't really know. HTH Peter -- "Do not be idolatrous or bound to any doctrine, theory or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means, not absolute truth." Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk. http://www.seaox.com/thich.html www.the-brights.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
