Re: [opensuse] Groupwise - Open-Xchange
- From: "Peter Van Lone" <petervl@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 01:36:19 -0500
On 5/9/07, Catherine Carminati <ccarminati@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all
I work at a company that has about 160 users, we are thinking of upgrading
our servers, one of them
being the mail server.
what i would like to find out is if anyone works with Groupwise 7 and if you
would recommend
the product. Almost all our users use Outlook 2000 / outlook xp / outlook
2003 and outlook 2007,
some also use outlook express.
I have also read about Open-xchange. anyone using the product?
GroupWise is a really fine corporate collaboration product. It's
scaleable (which you don't really care about, I realize) and easy to
manage. The client has gotten better and better, and there are some
quite exciting new features coming in the version due end of year
(code name Bonobo, or something like that). Runs great on SLES.
Requires edirectory (this is one of the things that is changing, I
think in the next version, or two) and management via console one,
which is a bit of a clunky java util.
If your users are used to OutLook, then you can either continue using
that with the GroupWise "connector", or (what I would suggest) move
them to the native client, as it is easier to support is familiar
enough that users will get used to it. If you try to use the
Outlook/GW connector, there are some compromises (not everything works
exactly as it does in either product on it's own) and there MAY be
some issues with stability. I have not used it ... I know that earlier
versions were .... a challenge in some ways. I have also heard it has
gotten better.
The GW client (like OutLook) is *NOT* a strong email client, from the
traditional nix point of view ... it's monolithic, doesn't have strong
scripting or command line options, defaults to top-posting, etc etc
etc .... but if your users are used to Outlook they will understand
and like the GW approach.
I've never used Open-xchange but what I have *heard* is that it is
quite nice, but not as polished, not as complete feature-wise for
collaboration, etc ... but I don't really know.
HTH
Peter
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