Re: Soliciting experiences and feedback on migrating from MS Exchange 5.5 to OpenExchange 4.1

From: Lars (nospam_at_nospin.org)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:58:45 -0700

I appreciate the link, sir. The site was interesting, but did not contain
much information of the type I am looking for. I'm sure there are users of
this forum familiar with this information, could someone please share it
with me?

--Lars

> > Pretty much what the title says, folks. I am responsible for supporting
a
> > medium-sized business with about 150 clients that is currently using MS
> > Exchange 5.5 on a Win2k box for email and some light web services. I've
> > been shopping around for alternatives to the beastly expensive MS
Exchange
> > 2003 and found out about OpenExchange.
> >
> > On the surface it looks like a great fit. However, there is absolutely
no
> > information to be found on the tools and details involved in making the
> > migration. Novell/Suse are EXTRAordinarily uncommunicative and
unhelpful,
> > both on the phone and via emails. I guess they must be selling a great
> > many
> > licenses, because they're sure arrogant about the poor support. The
best
> > I've been able to get out of them after about 3 weeks of trying is a
short
> > form email telling me to purchase the migration from a third-party
> > partner. Well in this case, I AM the person who would be doing the work,
> > so I'd like
> > to get some details on it. I can't even find a whitepaper on the
product
> > at Suse's website.
> >
> > If anyone can shed some light on this for me I'd be grateful, be it in
the
> > form of personal experiences or pointing me to where I can read about it
> > myself. I thought I was pretty good at finding information on the 'Net,
> > but this one has me beat.
> >
> > --Lars
>
> This might be a starting point for ya.
>
> http://www.ximian.com/solutions/
>
> --
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