Hello,
First of all, I apologize for my late reply on this but we wanted to
complete what we were working on regarding OpenChange.
Even if Samba 4 is tagged as "alpha", it's being used in production
environments. One the developers even did a presentation at the SambaXP
conference on May 9th 2011 (http://sambaxp.org/?id=66) on how to use
Samba 4 for production deployments. Nonetheless, Samba 4 doesn't really
need to mature much more than what it is right now to allow us to
deliver native Outlook compatibility to SOGo as it's mostly used to
decode the Exchange protocol and handle authentication - both working
quite well.
In the past two months, we've been very busy on adding support for
Outlook "cached" mode. This allows Outlook to cache all information
locally (mails, contacts, events and tasks), allowing it to restart
rapidly and also opening offline support capabilities. While adding
this, we improved globally OpenChange to the point where Outlook 2007
and 2010 are now starting to work.
Regarding our release timeframe, here is our reviewed one :
- this week - release TP9 with Outlook "cached" mode support and
initial Microsoft Outlook 2007 / 2010 support
- Weeks of June 6th and 13th
- perform lots of testing and identity bugs using Outlook 2003, 2007
and 2010 with or without the cache
- release an installation and configuration procedure to install the
solution in an existing SOGo environment
- Weeks of June 20th and June 27th - finish the multi-folders support
in the mail interface and correct defects identified in previous weeks
- Week of July 4th - release a first "beta"
The weeks after will be dedicated on polishing everything in order to
release a first final release.
Thanks and best regards,
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Ludovic Marcotte
[email protected] :: +1.514.755.3630 :: www.inverse.ca
Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence
(www.packetfence.org)
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