[NEWS] Eudora Goes Open Source, Joins Mozilla Family

[Kim Hawtin]

Piers Rowan wrote:
>> I've never quite gotten Exchange servers apart from noting that:
>>     
> I have to agree. OK I get the MTA part and I accept that it plugs in to a
> MS utopia but most CRM have diaries & can send email. But they have the
> added advantage of having "data". I've admined Exchange for a few (8)
> years and it really seems like the glue to sell Outlook features.
>
> We ended up writing our own CRM using various Linux / Open Source servers
> to ...."serve". This approach allows us to map our business case into our
> systems and not shoe horn a product into the way we work. Exchange is the
> Imelda Marcos of shoe horning - "all fits one size".
>   
i've done a bit of digging on this in the past on replacing
exchanges mail+addressboot+calendar+tasks services and
clients to replace outlook.

these articles are referenced often;
- 
http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/exchange-replacement-howto/exchange-replacement-howto.html
- http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6368

there are a couple of projects that combine the source from
cyrus+postfix+openldap+apache+($WEBCALENDAR)+($WEBADDRESSBOOKMANAGER),
but configuration was a big problem, stability was worse
and it only compiled on fedora core 2 or 3, dependency hell ensued...

what it comes down to, for me, is business/office work flow.
if you can get the tools to work together sufficiently well,
the work flow around them is the 'problem' that needs to
be worked on... training and support makes a big difference.

cheers,

kim