I will agree with this.

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 19:02 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote:
> I think one main thing is "Either these things matter to your client or
> they don't.". If there were a base product or a series of products that
> just needed assembling to be as good or better then Exchange. I would
> think a group of people could stitch it all together in a way that would
> be sellable. Unfortunately I think there are some missing pieces.
> 
> I think a big set of use cases would be helpful. The other thing as a
> developer that comes to mind is SVN being a better version of CVS. We
> need free software version of exchange that from its beginnings was
> designed by the hive mind :)
> 
> ex.
> Should be able to be do online backups
> Should be able to run as a cluster of machines so load could be distributed
> ... etc
> 
> 
> What I think is that if there were the equivalent of Apache but in the
> Collaboration space that would be great. All the current players I think
>  are Commercial Open source that means they have investors or
> shareholders to answer to. If there was a solution available I think
> people such as Bryan could advocate using it in place of exchange.
> 
> Did this search
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=exchange+replacements&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=100&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=y&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images
> 
> Found
> http://zarafa.com/
> which is different from Zimbra do not know anything about it.
> 
> You also have these companies that have already written a bunch of stuff
> and then decide to open source it. This generally does not work because
> the requirements were gathered by a single company trying to solve a
> problem on their own. I think Mozilla was mired with issues at first for
> some of the same reasons.
> 
> > Either these things matter to you or they don't.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
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