On 21/02/2013 18:39, Mark Madere wrote:
Greetings,
I have looked through all the posts on this topic and I would like to add my
two cents (, as we say in the US). I think many people commenting on this
thread misunderstand SOGo and ZEG.
From the ZEG download page:
"The ZEG (Zero Effort Groupware) edition of SOGo is intended to provide a complete
out-of-the-box testing environment of SOGo, the Open Source messaging and calendaring
software."
From the SOGo home page:
"SOGo is fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on scalability
and open standards. ... SOGo is the missing component of your infrastructure; it sits in
the middle of your servers to offer your users an uniform and complete interface to
access their information."
So what does that mean? It means ZEG is a virtual appliance to help you
understand how SOGo works so you can setup your own servers. It means that
SOGo is not a mail server. It is not a directory server. It is not a database
server. It means that it has no users to manage.
If you are looking to use a testing environment like ZEG as a production server
I think you will be disappointed that it lacks the features required for
production. If you are looking to build your own production server, then SOGo
can be a great component along side other components. The beauty of SOGo is
that it can be configured to work with many systems. And because of that there
is no way that SOGo can manage users from every directory/database/posix/etc.
server. It is up to each administrator to setup and manage their mail servers,
users accounts, databases, etc.. the way they want.
I hope this helps clarify what ZEG and SOGo are, and what they are not.
Mark
ps: If you are looking for turn-key solutions that includes SOGo, there are
companies that can help you with that. If you want to roll your own solution
and need help Inverse can provide you commercial support.
I think you have explained what we all know very well and it is the
problem we are trying to solve. We want to roll our own turn key solution.
I don't know where open source software comes from or why. However I
think it's significant that the components are free but putting it
together into something someone can use costs money.
I want to build servers for my customers and charge them money. However
I don't mind freely helping people with what I have learned so they can
build servers for their customers.
If someone is making money from charging us server builders money so we
can build servers, they are not going to be very happy if we figure out
how to help each other for free. Hence why ZEG is not a full turn key
solution. If it was an ISO it would be closer, hence it's a VM.
I think I probably need to change my entire world view.
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