OGO vs. OX - Re: [NBLUG/talk] alternative to Exchange?

[Steve Johnson]

Overall is open-xchange a drop in replacement for a win2k box running
exchange?  Will the end users notice if you were to do this say, over
a weekend?  Monday morning, assuming you have all the passwords and
logins ported over.. would the users notice?

-Steve



On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:27:24 -0800, Mark Street <mark at oswizards.com> wrote:
> Well, I finally had to bite the bullet and install open-xchange.  I quizzed
> the Novell geeks at Linuxworld quite a bit about it and it has been on my
> list of things to give a look at.....and your question made me do it.
> Nice....  But not for the faint of heart to setup and get running.....
> Definitely not a 'drop in'.  I set it up on a Red Hat 9 box.
> 
> I have both opengroupware (OGO) and open-xchange (OX) web interfaces running
> side by side if anyone wants to give them a whirl.  I can mail you a test
> login and password.
> 
> OX uses alot of services to fulfill its duties, Apache, Java, Tomcat, IMAP,
> SMTP, amavisd-new, ClamAV, PostgreSQL, LDAP, WebDav, plus you can add Samba
> to make those doze client's just as happy as they want to be for file and
> print serving.
> 
> Quite a piece of work on both projects.  OGO is nearing version 1 release, I
> installed a 1.0 alpha while OX is at 0.7.5.
> 
> On Friday 28 January 2005 11:26, Mark Street wrote:
> > http://opengroupware.org
> >
> > I think I have it setup and not running on an old server somewhere around
> > here.....
> >
> > On Wednesday 26 January 2005 15:23, Daniel Smith wrote:
> > > A person in my office is seeking an alternative to
> > > M$ Exchange for email and calendar services.  What would
> > > be the Linux drop-in replacement?  (or, free and offering
> > > compatible/similiar functionality?)
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