The free software is not what I was talking about. My experience was with the commercial product you can purchase from Novell. That product can be purchased with a variety of support options both durring and after installation.
On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 14:31 -0400, Neil L. Little wrote: > I have been reading in some of the forums about OpenXchange about some > issues getting it runing and bad documentation. > > Im looking at the fact that though I am the brightest pennie in the pile > as far as IT goes at the work place (sales, video producer, > creative types that just care that things go "whizz! click!"), I am > myself a noob as linux/open source system administration goes. > > Will OpenXchange present considerable challenge to configure and > integrate? Are there any big gotchas? > > The good thing is that I have some time to get my noobiness rubbed off > and come up to speed. > > I appreciate your input! > > Neil, WA4AZL > JARS Forever!! ...er TRILUG Too! > > > +1 for OpenXchange > > > > I helped a small business get started a few years ago with OpenXchange. > > Since then they have grown to roughly 80 employees. They all use Outlook > > with all the shared calendar and folder junk. The employees have no > > idea that there is no Microsoft server on the other end. Samba, LDAP, > > NTP, DHCP and DNS are all run from this single server as this was the > > default in the initial installation. I believe backups and the mail > > store have been moved to a CORAID. > > > > They upgraded it recently but have had only one issue in 3+ years which > > they solved with a per incident support purchase. The support guy > > actually SSH'd in and fixed their issue. > > > > The guy who administers it from day to day is a very junior sysadmin > > type. There has been no real care and feeding other than creating and > > deleting users and lists from the admin GUI. It has been perfect for > > them, and has been amazingly cheap in $TCO > -- 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/
