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

[JD Austin]

Vince Lombardi  - "Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> 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?
> ----
> 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
>
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I personally like google's apps for domains.  It has calendaring, Imap, and
a lot more.
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