[ubuntu-uk] IBM & Ubuntu - but what about Lotus?

[Matt Jones]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> Paul Roach wrote:
>> It's an interesting development and perhaps brings Ubuntu one step
>> closer to providing support for an application that can genuinely
>> compete with MS Exchange (the sole reason why we still have an Active
>> Directory environment here - as everything else for Windows clients
>> can be delivered via Samba+LDAP).  IMHO it's the one thing that's
>> lacking for Ubuntu and Linux in general.  A cost effective, functional
>> and not exclusively web based groupware solution that functions for
>> both Windows and Linux clients would then provide a complete migration
>> path for corporates to an Open-Source environment.  Unfortunately
>> Exchange is, at the moment Microsoft's killer app and is too often
>> dismissed as a simple mail server.  The integration it provides with
>> the other aspects and features (shared tasks, calendars, public
>> folders, journaling, etc) mean that there's nothing out there at
>> present that can touch it.
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this to attention Mac, and for the detailed
>> response Alan.
> Well there is Zimbra.  I tried the Open Source edition and found it to
> work quite well.  After a bit of fiddling I worked out how to import
> Exchange users to Zimbra (there is a Windows tool available) and it has
> a nice web interface, mail, calenders etc.  It can also be expanded with
> the use of Zimlets (I liked the fact I could link it in with Google
> Maps).  It also has Windows and Linux clients, and I believe a Mac
> client too (Zimbra Desktop).
>
> On the down side though the Open Source edition doesn't have plugins for
> Outlook (I believe that only in the paid for version) and it isn't under
> the GPL, I gather it's some sort of Yahoo licence which is more
> restrictive.  Not to mention the fact it's future appears to be somewhat
> hanging on the balance (Yahoo may or may not sell it according to
> articles I've read on the net).
>
> Rob
>
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Has anyone else seen/used Opengoo? It is a Affero GPL V3 Web office
suite. The online demo was very nice(Although it appears to have
stopped working now. I only found out about it yesterday and was
surprised it hasn't received more attention. I am not sure how it
compares to other web officey type things, such as Zimbra. I was about
to install Zimbra to run email, but Opengoo looks like it might be
worth a try.

Matt.