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

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:03 -0700, Eric Cope wrote:
> I still haven't seen a list of applications that rival Exchange. I
> have a client that wants some of the features of exchange, but can't
> afford it, making him a great candidate for FOSS. I just don't know
> what packages to use. He would like the scheduling/calendar feature as
> well as global contact lists. I've tried the poor man's version
> (CalDAV), but Sunbird and Thunderbird didn't seem to support it
> well... He is an accountant, meaning he must live in the Windows world
> for Quickbooks and Peachtree.  Any ideas are appreciated.
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sunbird and lightning for thunderbird support CalDAV extremely well.
They also support ical well but that is perhaps less than a perfect
solution. Perhaps whatever implementation you used for CalDAV wasn't
working right.

LDAP can provide global address book.

Craig