[ubuntu-uk] Anyone ever tried kolab on feisty

[andy]

Daniel,

The company I work for re-sell Zimbra, and I also developed a server we sell which uses horde.

The response from all our customers to Zimbra has been very positive, it has a clean UI which is great for the webmail client, but it's also got a clever backend, as good shared calendaring features.  It's got a feature whereby if multiple people in your company receive the same attachment, it's only stored once - and symlinked to all the different mailboxes on the server.

When I first used Zimbra - I really didn't like it, as it's got quite a big footprint.  However, looking at Kolab as a Desktop Groupware product, Zimbra follows standards that will allow you to connect desktop apps to it fairly well.  It supports iCal for it's shared calendars.  It also has a very easy to use administration interface - adding more domains is a cinch.

Horde on the other hand loads quite fast, but it's more of a spaceship control system.  It appears to be able to do anything - and has the buttons to do it.  Most client complain about a slightly cluttered interface.  However, I enjoy using it personally for work, because there's so much that it can do.  It's very versatile, though you have to manage the backend yourself.

If you want something you can get up and running fairly fast, then I'd recommend Zimbra.  If you want complete control over your backend (which IMHO normally means the chance to break more things on upgrade) then go with horde.

I'm afraid I don't know much about Kolab, or OpenGroupware or OpenExchange which are a couple more you may want to look at.

Regards,

Andy

(Sorry if the email is a little convoluted)

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:20:29 +0100, "Daniel Lamb" <daniel.lamb at dlcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> Andy,
> It will be for up to 10 users, on a new dell poweredge 1900 with 1.5TB
> drive, quad core processor etc so capacity is not a problem.
>
> Features; moving away from an exchange box and were planning on using just
> imap however I would like to check out what other options are out there on
> the kolab side etc, so really looking at mail, contacts and calendars.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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>
> Daniel.
>
> It depends what you want from your groupware. If you have spare hardware
> capacity, I'd go with Zimbra.  Dave Walker recently demoed Bongo to me -
> and
> that also looks very good.  I use horde at work (as it's used by the
> Univesity of Manchester internally too - to give you an idea of it's
> scalability.
>
> If you want to let me know your number of users & feature set you'd like,
> then I'd be happy to give you my 2p worth.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:37:22 +0100, "Daniel Lamb"
> <daniel.lamb at dlcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
>> Just wondering as it appears there are afew people who are using
> servers,
>> Have you ever tried kolab? Or is there a better groupware client to use,
> I
>> currently have samba, apache etc installed, tried kolab but got an error
>> due
>> to it needing php4, just thought it might be worth an ask.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel
>>
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