[HLUG] Zimbra - A real Outlook /Exchange replacement?

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

If you are looking at Zimbra check out Scalix http://www.scalix.com - I
looked at Zimbra when going to Scalix a couple of years ago, but Scalix
seemed at the time to be more customisable, Zimbra seemed to require the
web interface to do a lot, which seemed a bit clunky to me.  Scalix has
done the bread and butter of our email for the past two years, and other
than a few minor problems, we have had no issues with the backend.  It
hasn't been as smooth on the Outlook front, but the issues have been
fixed with product updates.

That said, due to our volume of mail, and neither Zimbra or Scalix
support on the large style backup applications, we may be forced down
the Exchange route at work, which is a shame.

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
Robbins
Sent: 27 June 2008 08:38
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: [HLUG] Zimbra - A real Outlook /Exchange replacement?

Hi

I looked at using Zimbra ww.zimbra.com once in the company I work for, 
but we went for a different solution. Shame in some ways when you see 
what Zimbra is capable of these days.

I mention Zimbra as there is a open source version of their software. 
You don't get every bell and whistle, but you get most of the 
functionality you require without having to go with the commercial
version.

I also wanted to plug a new service that the ISP we use, 
(www.openia.com) are trialling  - a full hosted Zimbra service.

I had a play with the system, and was mightily impressed with the ease 
of use, the ajax interface and the quick response :- it really was like 
using a standalone local application. Might you I'm told that Openia 
have a dual quad Xeon set of processors, effectively an 8 core setup 
server, so pretty hefty hardware behind it.

I hope this doesn't come across as advertising, but I wanted to bring to

people's attention that you can get hosted solutions such as this in the

UK, though sadly not from Herefordshire itself as yet.

Also Openia don't yet have anything on their website advertising this 
service, but I'm sure they will in due course.

Cheers

Julian

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