[plug] Groupware on Linux: state of play

[Evert van Dijk]

I have had a reasonably good experience with Zimbra - they have two levels of play; Community edition (Read as Free) and the The Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS).
I use the Community edition and it has served me well for mail and calendar, notes and the shared briefcase. The webmail also works very well and uses ajax (The same thing that gmail uses on their webmail). the ZCS allows you to have users see your own template and interface to make it look like your own project. I don't know the costs.

The admin side is webbased and I found it intuitive once it was set up. It handles multiple domains if required.

Good Luck


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Bowden" <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au>
To: plug at plug.org.au
Sent: Friday, 6 March, 2009 3:23:28 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi
Subject: Re: [plug] Groupware on Linux: state of play

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 14:43 +0900, Tim Bowden wrote:

> As far as features are concerned, I'm looking for compatibility with
> outlook for mail and calendering features.  All else is candy really as
> that's what end users mostly know about.

Sorry, not true.  Also looking for webmail (though I guess that could be
separate if need be) and a decent intuitive web admin for an 'unskilled'
user to add mail accounts and other basic admin tasks.

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