I can understand having to pay for a connector for the "closed" source outlook, but the idea of having to pay for a connector for Evolution, an OSS replacement for Outlook, bothers me.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OSS exchange replacement Jon Carnes wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:22, Lee wrote: > >>Found on /. : >>http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/10/1240242.shtml?tid=185 >> >>The site, www.opengroupware.org, is heavily /.ed right now though. >> >>-Lee > > > This is not a drop-and-insert for exchange (like the SUSE exchange > server). This server has similar elements but looks a bit like a kludge > solution. It requires a proprietary (not free) "connector" software in > order for the email clients to access the server. > > If you go with this type of solution, then you end-up paying a per > client price for each connection - as opposed to SUSE's up-front > purchase and then no client licenses. > > Jon Only the Outlook (which is what I assume you are focussing on) and Evolution clients require a connector. Mozilla (and I believe apple's mail.app or whatever they have) do not require a connector but currently isn't at the level of Outlook and Evolution. However, it seems like that may be a decent direction (mozilla) to investigate for the future. -Lee -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
