Re: [LUG] Help!! they want to install Outlook!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kevin Tunison <ktunison@xxxxxxxxx>]

This link:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/1422209

 

Goes over some of the groupware alternatives pitted against Exchange.  The biggest challenge in my experience (We use Mdaemon - see zensoftware.co.uk) is getting a meeting scheduler that integrates with Outlook.  If it's just room reservations, each room can be given its own account with a shared editable folder.

 

Keep in mind, that most of these competitive groupware solutions still do charge, just not nearly as much (and no CAL).  The last I looked at Communigate it was a pretty nasty interface with a steep learning curve.  From a quick look at their site though, they have quite a bit vested in VOIP.
 

On 2/14/06, James Wonnacott <jwon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Senior Management at my place of work have been told by an "advisor" how
wonderful it would be to have the school's calender, meeting scheduler
etc. available to all running on outlook!!!!
What are the alternatives? I'm hoping for something web-based,
accessible from inside and outside the school hosted on our apache
server that I have running on Mandrake 10.1 at present.
I need to find some good alternatives soon or I'm going to get
steamrollered down the mickey-mousetrosoft route :-(

Thanks
James

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