[Gllug] Collaboration and Directory Services

[Dan Kolb]

Simon Morris wrote:

> All were very helpful but none really gave me the answer I was hoping for.
> Where are these OSS solutions?

There aren't any fully developed OSS ones, unfortunately.

> Directory Services: OpenLDAP, NIS. Both great systems but neither really
> have the management interfaces available to compare against AD, NDS,
> eDirectory
> 
> Collaboration Servers: OpenExchange, roll your own mail server (SMTP
> daemon, IMAP daemon, Maybe LDAP)

Um. Postfix, Courier, and yes, LDAP. It's not roll your own.

> OpenExchange has proprietary components but otherwise looks good on paper
> (I'm going to give it a test run soon), roll your own is probably the most
> satisfying from a geek point of view but isn't good when deploying multiple
> servers in an organisation
> 
> Also the shared calendar and contact management isn't really there.
> 
> The closest I've come to a complete solution is opengroupware.org but I
> haven't really seen it touted anywhere, or included on major distributions.

Kolab? Apparently it works with Outlook with the Bynari Insight connector.

Dan

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