[Kroupware] OpenGroupware.org formed through SKYRiX open sourcing its Groupware server

[Helge Hess]

Hi,

I'm on this list for quite some time and as I expressed before, SKYRiX 
and now OGo, wants to work *with* Kolab, not against it. We appreciate 
the work gone into Kolab.

We have some different opinions on how things should be done (eg using 
IMAP as a calendering and contact storage), but we can share large 
parts of the codebases.
OGo does not intend to "compete" against to Kolab.

On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2003, at 16:07 Uhr, Maarten Stolte wrote:
> the Skyrix is being sold by SuSE afaik as OpenExchange, or am i 
> totally mistaking here?

You are mistaken here. SuSE Email Server III contained SkyrixGreen, 
which is a completely separate codebase from OGo.
OpenExchange uses a Java based web groupware (ComFire) which is closed 
source and propritary.

> 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'm not sure what you mean by "huge database backend". We just use 
PostgreSQL or FrontBase which certainly isn't huge. Of course you can 
use a large one like Oracle, but that certainly isn't necessary.

We at OGo find the Kolab approach interesting and would like to see how 
it works out in practice. Our approach is certainly more traditional 
but is proven to be working for years.

> agreed, and they have the bigger databases non-opened, so that might 
> be a big catch..

I guess with "bigger databases" you are referring to Oracle and Sybase. 
Of course those are provided as open source as well, just not part of 
the OGo project.

best regards,
   Helge
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