[Gllug] Puke - Berlin Bundestag will switch to Outlook and Exchange

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu Jun 21 14:11:02 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:06:44PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > They probably wanted... oh I don't know... shared calendaring that 
> > actually works properly?
> 
> Or decent, shared contacts. Easy admin of the whole thing, web
> interfaces and much more.
> 
> Exchange is foul and I really hated working with it, but you have to
> give it credit for being a pretty complete solution.

There are various OSS for this, with varing degrees of niceness.
The common feature that they lack is the ability to seamlessly play with
MS desktops (ie outlook) and FLOSS s/ware. This is a basic criteria in choice.

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