[olug] Groupware suggestions - Long

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Before you go spending all the companie's money, see what you can use on a
test server.  I have a 120 day trial for Exchange 2002, and I used it way
before implimenting it.  Personally, I hate M$ products and try to stray
away from them the best I can, but you can't always get what you want.  So
anyway, for security purposes I put everything behind a linux box(P1 66MHz
running Coyote Linux).  I've had no problems with it so far, aside frome
guessing the kernel drivers for the nics.  I do however miss the spam
filters.

I honestly wish I could offer a better solution, but I would suggest
Exchange to please the higher ups.  And besides you can read everyone else's
mail(joke).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Brutsche" <phil at giedi.obix.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Groupware suggestions - Long


> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> > Active Directory uses LDAP?
>
> Correct.
>
> If you have the right know-how you can browse the AD tree with simple
> command-line tools like "ldapsearch".
>
> To go further, it's even possible[1] to have a "black-box" mail system
> running Linux/*BSD/*nix that looks for users in AD via LDAP!
>
> [1]: I need to stress *possible*.  Most MTAs aren't flexible enough to be
> able to speak to AD, and there's still the question of the POP3/IMAP
> servers needing work...
>
> > I think I have a machine that I can screw up with Win2k server or Linux
> > for that matter.  Another post said to separate the servers.  I have an
> > AMD 400MHz machine here, do you think that would be enough to handle the
> > load of 4 people using web based groupware?
>
> Easily.  My AD testing machine is a 500MHz AMD K6-2.  Just make sure you
> load up the memory, if you use Win2k.
>
> > I may be willing to rip win2k server and install linux if a good
> > solution can justify it.  My company is sitting in a good spot right now
> > to do this since we only have 4 people to switch over.
>
> Use the testing machine to set up a demonstration before you rip anything
> out :)
>
> > So far I've heard good things about Exchange and Lotus Notes and had a
> > suggestion for Shared360 and PHPGroupWare and MyGroupware.  I would like
> > to hear some more about people using these programs and their
> > experiences.  I don't believe all the stuff they say on their webpage
> > because it is mostly marketing.  I would love to hear some actual users
> > of these systems.
>
> I've never heard of Shared360 - I'll have to try that one out.
>
> The version number for phpGroupWare is 0.9.14-RC2.  'nuff said.
>
> I've never tried MyGroupware - it's too heavliy dependant on MySQL for me
> to be willing to try it (I'm a PostgreSQL user).
>
> --
>
> Phil
>
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