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On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:59, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>On Thursday 10 July 2003 08:45 am, Maarten Stolte wrote:
> ugh..as the topic states:
> </FONT><A HREF="http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1210"><U>http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1210</U></A>
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While this is a repackage of an older project, I have yet to see it work. </I></FONT></PRE>
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the Skyrix is being sold by SuSE afaik as OpenExchange, or am i totally mistaking here?<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>There is a ton of hype behind it but IMHO they have a few disadvantages.
The big one being the huge database backend. By using IMAP to store
information and LDAP to store the config and accounts I think kolab has more
flexability.</I></FONT></PRE>
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agreed, and they have the bigger databases non-opened, so that might be a big catch..<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I> Now advantages we can catch up with quickly. The webdav
support is pretty easy with a nano (i think this is the webdav python server)
and they pyimap code. Someone with time and energy could duplicate this
quickly. </I></FONT></PRE>
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no idea how much work this'll be.<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I> Im not sold on the webdav part though over a native MAPI transport
and datastore like im doing. The only real advantage for the Gnomes is
evolution can use it out fo the box.</I></FONT></PRE>
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you are doing a mapi for? The advantage for the gnomes seems to be only with the Outlook connector.<BR>
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That being said, they are going to be competition and I think this is a good
thing as it may force kolab to address its shortcommings (yeah just try to
upgrade a kolab server... i still cannot without losing email)</I></FONT></PRE>
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yup<BR>
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These guys have some momentum, but in the end from what I can tell they dont
have much more than us accomplished already. Well see, maby this will get
the kroupare guys developing again!</I></FONT></PRE>
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i hope so too :-))<BR>
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Maarten
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