OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 08:36 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I could code to save my life, but not well enough to start a whole project.
> However, for something like a sbs solution I would think the real talent
> would be in just creating a distro that had solutions pre installed and
> configured with a handful of questions asked during install. You would need
> LDAP & KRB that could be used for single sign on for Linux, Mac, and windows
> desktops. You would need Samba for file and print sharing (With ACLs). You
> would need an exchange like package with cross platform clients. You would
> need a substitute for SharePoint, terminal services, and a remote desktop
> gateway.  You would need Apache with a wiki and a default intra company
> website.  You would need something like openvpn.  You would need central
> management of desktops.  After that you would just need to have easy,
> integrated, management counsel.  And I am sure their a half dozen other
> items I am forgetting. I could coble together most of the function, without
> the central management, client computer management, SharePoint substitute,
> exchange substitute, and a few others. However to get what I could replace
> as one unified package is way beyond me.  It does seem that SuSE would
> probably give you the closest starting point.
> 
> If anyone starts something I could probably help with some things.  I have
> enjoyed my work with win/lin integration using windows as a domain
> controller and would not mind taking a stab at having it work the other way.
> Actually, where are SuSE and RedHat on their "domain" projects?  Anyone
> know?
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I suppose that we have come full circle on this topic.

Some are determined to only consider a single, consolidated package that
purports to take on Exchange Server on all fronts.

Some of us are willing to 'cobble' as you put it the various parts and
pieces of open source projects to provide the desired features. I
personally think that this is the only way to go. 

Craig