Hard to sell something that will soon have a "FAIB" choice
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| helios Nov 19, 2006 5:00 PM EDT |
I looked hard at Zimbra...it is a sweet program and fit our needs the corporate level perfectly, but man...they are awfully proud of their product, pricewise that is. I decided on Open-Xchange with price considerations being the top issue and the fact that Open-Xchange meets our needs nicely. Not the easiest install, but I stumbled thru it. It only lacks one feature that Zimbra does but I can live with that. Anyone needing to look comparatively at these products can look here. On the other hand, it is not going to be long until egroupware pulls neck and neck with all these offerings, and at the absurd price of...well, of $0.00. The only reason we didn't go with it now is because of its lack of a few features...but that is quickly becoming a non-issue. Egroupware.com tells the whole story. Side note: just noticed that any real competitor to Zimbra was not hardlinked in this article. That's odd...just an oversite I am sure. Yeah, it has to be just something overlooked. h |
| rijelkentaurus Nov 19, 2006 5:58 PM EDT |
>..they are awfully proud of their product, pricewise that is. A lot of open source programs with commercial counterparts are like that. I know they need to make money, but more reasonably priced offerings would get a bigger response, I think. Think of Red Hat: Basic support for RHEL ES 4 is less than $400/year, and you can go up from there as you please, or as your budget allows. >On the other hand, it is not going to be long until egroupware pulls neck and neck with all these offerings, and at the absurd price of...well, of $0.00 There's also Kolab which shows a lot of promise. V2.0beta3 was just released. I've setup a VM of CentOS 4.4 to try it out over the Thanksgiving weekend (they have a nice guide on the site for CentOS). I'm hoping it works nicely. SugarCRM is pretty cool...you can get a VM from rPath that runs it. Not really groupware...but it has some things in common. "Groupware" is a pretty broad term. Call it whatever, Sugar is pretty suite. ;-) |
| dinotrac Nov 19, 2006 6:06 PM EDT |
> Sugar is pretty suite. ;-) It is. I'm still a little antsy about them -- they, too, have a deal with Microsoft and their own license, etc, and not entirely sure they place the same emphasis on underlying fundamental sturdiness as they do on geegaws, but I'd much rather have them around than not. |
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