[Cialug] Exchange Replacement Opportunity

[David Champion]

IMHO, I'd much rather have the google calendar that works everywhere, than
the Exchange calendar that only works with Outlook.

-dc


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <
daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:

> On 2014-02-12 at 10:59:52 L. V. Lammert wrote:
> > Interesting, .. the only other problem here is that there any number
> > of different domains, .. how is Zimbra at handling that?
>
> Actually, it handles it pretty well, if i recall correctly. I think we
> had 2 domains running, one for testing, one for production. Or maybe we
> had the test domain on a separate install... i don't actually remember
> it now since the initial setup of Zimbra was about 5 years ago.
>
> On 2014-02-12 at 11:26:36 Matt Patterson wrote:
> > The killer feature of Exchange has nothing to do with email.  Its the
> > calendar.   I'm not familiar with Zentyal, but have heard good things
> > about Zimbra and that would be a solution that I would look into if I
> > was looking to stand up my own or find a cloud provider that did it
> > for me.
>
> Zimbra's calendaring works great, except if you have offices full of
> people that do *lots* of calendar sharing amongst themselves. Then it
> gets kind of buggy. That's actually the reason we ended up dumping
> Zimbra; because the upper levels of the administration needed
> calendaring to work perfectly with complex sharing, using Outlook as the
> client. For most people who don't have complex sharing setups, or who
> use the web client, it works perfectly. That said, we got away from
> Zimbra a couple years ago, so it might work better now. I think you can
> still download the open version of it and try playing with it for free.
>
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