[nylug-talk] The future of Zimbra after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!

[Zach Stern]

Actually I can think of SEVERAL small companies that can. I admin exchange for a few companies right now, ranging from 5.5, to 2003, fron 5 users to 100 users.

Does it have problems? Sure. Does it require seemingly random server reboots? Definitely. Is it as reliable as, well, really any unixy mail server? No, definitely not.

But it definitely does do a damn good job of sharing calendars, contacts, tasks, etc. I actually have tried some of the alternatives. For example, communigate has an outlook mapi plugin for sharing calendars.

It works. Right now we have it running for 5 users. But honestly, compared to a full exchange install, its a bit of a joke.

Its SUPER slow when reading shared calendars, there are all kinds of bugs when trying to sync your blackberry to it (e.g. When you try to edit an event originating on your blackberry, via the wen interface, you get random errors), and there is certainly no BES support.

The exchange alternatives are ok, sometimes even decent, but somehow they never quite measure up in functionality.

-Zach


Zach Stern
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net>

Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:53:18 
To:NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
Subject: Re: [nylug-talk]
 The future of Zimbra after Microsoft
 's	bid	for	Yahoo!


On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, George Bourozikas wrote:

> I mostly agree with the above.  I would argue that buyers are not "braindead" 
> per se but they want to get a job done.  For better or for worse, Exchange 
> gets the job done.  It's not elegant and it's a resource hog (human and 
> machine) but it offers features that people ask for.

Most small businesses can't afford the licensing and/or consultant fees 
to run Exchange themselves. I imagine there are Exchange hosting companies 
out there that do very well though.

> So I guess Zimbra probably won't be the solution I've been looking for.  For 
> now I will continue to recommend hosted Exchange to my clients who need this 
> kind of functionality.  (Last I looked into it Kolab and Open-Xchange didn't 
> quite cut it.)

Might be worth looking at PostPath?


-- 
Aj.

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