[Gllug] Linux Petition

[Khusro Jaleel]

On 03/04/12 15:14, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:06:27AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
>
>> Being slightly contenious (spelling?) here, the discussions tend to be
>> on the adoption on Linux on the desktop. That I think is less popular
>> - partly because of the stranglehold of Exchange plus calendaring
>> integration
>
> They way to the desktop is to replace the applications, one by one (firefox,
> OoO, ...), until for most people the underlying operating system is irrelevant
> as the apps that they use work under most things: MS Windows, Linux, OS/X.
>
> Also: don't go for a clean sweap - you will always find someone who *needs*
> something that only runs on a particular platform. 80% is what you should aim
> at, and if you use open standards (file formats, networked file systems/shares)
> then do you really care ?
>
> Regarding MS Exchange. Is there yet a *good* free drop in replacement, ie one
> that lets people continue to use MS Outlook, will also play with Thunderbird&
> Evolution ? Anyone tried this:
>
> 	http://www.zarafa.com/
>
> I look every year or so and so far there have always been a few problems.
>

According to some discussions I've had, people claim Zarafa can be used 
as an Exchange replacement, with Outlook on the client side (with a MAPI 
connector of some sort), I have not tried this personally though.


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