On 26.06.2013 13:54, Wayland Sothcott wrote: > On 26/06/2013 06:35, Steven Swarts wrote: >> G'day guys >> >> I've been following SOGo for awhile now, used the ZEG and played with >> the tutorial that Oliver has kindly made available. >> >> My question is I have access to a vast amount of small businesses that >> I currently support and would love to support in the area of an >> Exchange alternative. But my reluctance is that I don't understand >> SOGo, OpenChange, Dovecot, Samba4, Sope, etc. I was wondering if >> anyone knew or could tell me where I could get training in this area. >> >> Currently I have a basic understanding of Linux, but I'm looking for a >> cutting edge education. The local education places only support Samba3 >> which annoys me to no end. >> >> So in a nutshell, if I were to do some courses (online preferably) >> what is the recommendation? >> >> Also I just want to say brilliant venture, I love Linux so keep up the >> great work. > Hello Steven, > > I have been following SOGo for several months now and played with the > ZEG and tried to add SOGo to a Debian server. I think there is a long > way to go with this before I can use it and I don't think it's a matter > of training. I have used ClearOS 5.2 successfully for small businesses. > With it's web interface it's very easy to get it to do all the things > it's capable of such as file sharing, email and hosting the companies > website. (I can't say the same about ClearOS 6) > > The 'Internet' defines lots of things for us, like how websites work, > how email works and how DNS works. What it does not define is how > address books work. All I want is a simple centralised database of email > addresses that is shared by all email users in the company. > > Back in the 90's there was a fantastic thing called Lotus Notes which > was the ultimate groupware. There are no open standards to let you > create one in Linux. Whare are the IMAP and SMTP protocols for address > books and calendars?
CardDAV and CalDAV. Coinincidentally, what SOGo uses. And Apple. And KDE. And Gnome. And… about everyone, sans Google (who want to push their own services – thankfully, there are decent clients for Android) and Microsoft (surprise!). > I have no idea why people would create standards such as IMAP yet not > carry on and create standards for address books. Unless it's so that > Microsoft Exchange has no competitor in the Open Source area. > > Regards, > Wayland. > > (Someone please correct me if I am wrong) > > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, / Best Regards, Sven SCHWEDAS Systemadministrator TAO Beratungs- und Management GmbH | Lendplatz 45 | A - 8020 Graz Mail/XMPP: [email protected] | +43 (0)680 301 7167 http://software.tao.at
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