On 15/12/06, Phil Scarratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I.T. much as they have other things to do and so it tends to be "Exchange will do - that's what everybody else in education uses isn't it".
Much as I'd hate to admit this, I can understand them - Sticking to something that supposed to be a TOOL rather than a main issue of their work and that the rest of their environment uses and familiar with just makes sense. In that regard you are probably right that the pressure to change should be applied mostly on the head, i.e. DET. Stats to say otherwise would be useful of course, but a real point in
favour of something else would be the ability to configure the time slots on a calendar to align with school periods. I think schools would be willing to skip features and exchange just to have that available. Apparently Microsoft have been asked to add that feature (but people aren't holding their breath of course).
Just looked around for "Linux-based Exchange Replacements" the other day and got a hunch that Scalix looks like a good candidate. Have you evaluated it yet? --P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
