[Gllug] Perhaps Newham needs a decent Linux consultant?

[Jason Clifford]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Mamading Ceesay wrote:

> Not a bad idea, except that the Ximian Connector only supports Exchange 
> 2000 and 2003, not 5.5!

How much life (in support terms) is left in Exchange 5.5?

I've heard that migrating up to 2K is a nightmare and can take months to 
do.

> The thing is that you can connect to Exchange using IMAP and LDAP, 
> which opens up a lot of possibilities on the Linux client front.   
> However the more heavily that Exchange-specific features are used (e.g 
> calendaring), the more difficult it is to find a workable solution.  
> Should be solvable though. 

This is still an area that really needs to be properly addressed by a Free 
Software solution.

I know that SuSE have a product however it contains proprietary elements 
so it's not really an answer to this.

Jason Clifford
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