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

[Alex Mace]

Personally I'd look at Google Apps - only $50 per user per year, 25Gb  
of storage per user, calendaring, sites, etc, etc. I use it my  
personal domain and we use it in work too. They've got some pretty  
massive installations on it now (aside from Gmail!). The spam  
protection is absolutely amazing, and it is as reliable as... Google.  
'nuff said!

Alex

On 27 Jun 2008, at 18:19, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

> 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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