[Sussex] Groupware / Mailserver recomendation

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
Tue Apr 12 16:54:41 UTC 2005


Diego,

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:42 +0100, Diego Moore wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2005 9:45 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
> <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:
> > Diego,
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand why it's out of your budget, is it because
> > your company would like the support package?
> 
> Now I'm confused... I had been looking at Novell's site. What are the
> main diferences between
> http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/ and
> http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/ ?
> 
> If its just down to the support contract then why do they mention the following:
> 
> 
> Please note that the product contains a full operating system
> installation. Therefore, it is not possible to install SUSE LINUX
> Openexchange Server on an installed Linux system.
> 
> 
> Sound like its very different! Does anyone know what are the differences?


OK, if you buy the Novell version, then it comes with SUSE Enterprise
Linux IIRC.  If you download the open-xchange.org tarball, you can
install it on your own system.  It's not the easiest of things to
install, however once it's there, it seems to work fine.

HTH,

Matt
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