Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

[Nathan England]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 20:07:10 Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I'm going to go with your IT people are doing it wrong :)  I liked
> exchange, then I had to administer it and at first I hated exchange, but
> now I love it.  I have very few problems.  I would say as many as I have
> with any MS product.  On my Linux boxes I just IMAP'ed for email and used
> an ical converter for calendaring (though I am told there are cleaner ways
> I never revisited after I set it up in 2006) In truth I have been exchange
> free for about six months now and have missed it greatly.  Google Apps
> works well enough and if I could get desktop syncing of my contacts I would
> probably be fine since there is no enterprise to collaborate with anymore. 
> But really, Exchange/Outlook are, unfortunately, the best PIM server/client
> combo I have found.  And with the inclusion in MS Server2003/2007 SBE for
> just a few hundred dollars, it is hard to ignore.  That and I have to say
> that for administering a few dozen blackberry's the BES/Exchange
> integration was a very nice thing to have.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan
> Dayley
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:38 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: OT:Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree on exchange really
> > If you need just email exchange is the wrong thing but if you are
> > looking at all the other stuff I haven't seen anything close without
> > some serious work and cobbling
>
> As a forced user of Exchange via Outlook I consider the combination proof
> that MS is a monopoly.  The number of UI odd-nesses, broken metaphors,
> failures to schedule, etc. that I regularly suffer with amaze me.  If it
> was a tool competing in a fair market, it would have been ridiculed and
> died. (Or our IT people are doing it wrong.)
>
> That said, I have not been an administrator of such a server nor have I
> used other competing solutions, other than Google.  But I am saddened to
> think that Exchange and Outlook, as broken as they are, represent the best
> enterprise PIM solution available.  Sad indeed.
>
> Alan
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

You can do contact and calendar sync with gmail and KDE kontact, if you enable 
IMAP in your google account. Works quite well.

nathan


-- 
Nathan England
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PaysonLinux OE 1.98.9
http://www.PaysonLinux.org/

Core Development Team
nathan . paysonlinux . org