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

[Joshua Zeidner]

On 2/5/08, Zach Stern <zach at wordrockets.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The exchange alternatives are ok, sometimes even decent, but somehow they never quite measure up in functionality.

  True, if you don't consider Google Busienss Services as an option.

  [ NOT A GOOGLE SALESMAN ]

  -jmz