That was the conclusion I reached when I looked at OpenExchange. Although I
did not see that it was a 100% replacement for Exchange, I did note that I
would end up paying more to run OpenExchange on a Linux server than I would
for Exchange/Windows. Didn't seem like I was getting any bang for the buck.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Ramsing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:30 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [RLUG] Exchange Replacements
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> > Linux journal did an article a few months back about a
> > group of developers that made an exchange replacement. They
> > were able to completely replace the exchange server with
> > all functionality ( at least if I remember right.) 
> 
> Linux Journal did an article in November 2003, which is not available
> online, that discussed the cracking of the Exchange headers (really
> encrypted IMAP stuff).  However, the work was performed for Suse
> Openexchange Server, which is not open source.  Openexchange 
> is meant to
> be a full service replacement for M$ Exchange with direct support for
> Outlook clients, but it costs more than Windoze 2003 Small Business
> Server (~$1,000 for Openexchange versus $700 for Windoze 2003 
> SBS), which
> comes with Windoze 2003 Server, SQL Server 2000, and Exchange.
> 
> 
> Fred
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