[Kroupware] Kolab server vs. Insight server

[Tassilo Erlewein]

On Saturday 22 February 2003 00:41, Nicolas Huillard wrote:
> Having just read information about the www.bynari.com 's Insight server,
> I'm astonished about the similarities between this and Kolab : same free
> software base (cyrus, openldap, apache, etc.), 

Bynari uses cyrus imap 1.x, openldap 1, exim and they come with
a proprietary cgi-bin (binary only, no source code) as webinterface.
The bynari server is license restricted.

Kolab uses the latest versions of cyrus imap 2, openldap 2, postfix
as well as TLS-secured client-server protocols and it comes as 
open source, even free software, where applicable, without adding _any_
sort of license restrictions.

Really, it's no surprise that someone building an oss based groupware solution 
will end up using apache, cyrus imap, openldap, postfix, etc.
This oss projects provide numerous features as well as good performance and 
stability, etc. etc.

> same project deadlines

There is no relation.

> Did they just "steal" your work ? 

Not at all.

> Was the kolab server meant
> specifically to use the Insight Connector, thus use the same server side
> base software ?

The insight connector makes outlook use imap instead of mapi.
Once that is achieved every OSS or whatever imap server can be used as 
groupware server. We found that very practical for the time being but
consider it being a temporary solution ("best practice").

In the long run we want to see open source software on the windows
client also, if windows as client platform is desired.
The oss community can only support open source software.

In short, the Kolab server is meant to support a set of open interfaces and 
protocols, use oss components to do so, _and_ itself be an open source 
software project.