Outlook and Linux

[Will H. Backman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Al Gordon
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:55 AM
> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
> Subject: Re: Outlook and Linux
> 
> On 11/1/05, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
> > Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > >>
> > >
> > > How about Scalix <http://www.scalix.com/>
> >
> > not so much.  They want to own the entire environment.
> >
> > > or Open-Xchange
> > > <http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/>?
> >
> > this is very intriguing because it allows me to keep the existing
mail
> > infrastructure and just add on the calendaring and other features.
If
> > this works as well as it says it does, you have just made my day.  I
am
> > very grateful for the pointer.
> 
> Zimbra might also be worth looking at: http://www.zimbra.com/
> 
> The only thing about Zimbra that I currently don't like is that they
> require that you run their bundled version of postfix, openldap, etc.
> However, from what I've read on their forums, there will be work done
> to handle that problem, allowing you to configure your pre-existing
> already-installed overlapping applications as components of the Zimbra
> environment.
> 
> Zimbra, itself, is open source.  It requires Java, which currently
> isn't.  It has its own AJAX gui for webmail and administration, and
> supports mail/collaboration clients such as Evolution and Outlook.
> 
> It's still in beta, and not so easy to get running under anything
> other than RHEL4 and Fedora Core 3, unfortunately.  I got it running
> on Ubuntu, but it was some work, and I didn't document every step of
> the process (sorry).  But, once it's actually up and running, it's
> pretty impressive.


Take a look at the Hula project also.