[plug] Groupware - progress

[Brad Campbell]

G'day all,

After my last query about groupware software, and all great help I
recieved from the list, I thought I'd update you all on how it's going.

I looked at some of the commercial apps and servers out there, and then
I looked at phpgroupware.

As a result I'm running an active trial of the current CVS phpgroupware
code going live next week. It's got some funny quirks and uses heaps of
ram when using mysql as a database, however if you limit your users to
some of the more stable apps, it's quite reliable.

I'm running a pair of powermac 7300/180's as servers, one production and
one devel.
Mysql as the Database (Coz I'm running debian testing and php4-pgsql is
currently not in testing. I'll be migrating to postgresql as soon as it
hits the ground).
I had to put a minimum of 64mb of ram in the machine, as the combo of
apache/php4/mysql blew the swap out to 64mb with only 32mb ram. It
thrashed like mad. With 64mb ram, it's much happier and only 10mb swap.

I update the phpgroupware code from cvs daily on the devel server, and
mirror the mysql database from the production server for regression
testing. If I feel the code is stable enough and warrants an upgrade
I just cvs-update the production machine after hours, after doing a 
full backup of course :p)

The initial deployment is simply Addressbook/Calendar/E-mail, the other
apps come later, but this combo appears to be reasonable stable. The
calendar has some strange bugs, but the nice thing is crash recovery
is only a single mouse click away, and no data loss occurs.

Thanks all, keep ypu posted.

-- 
Brad....
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