From: Tim Chipman (chipman@ecopiabio.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 18:17:53 EST
Hi all,
I know this is slightly off-topic, but I think I've seen this pass
through the list before, and will be very much happier to get feedback
from the list before seriously thinking of deployment.
We need a "groupware solution" (providing centralized calendar /
scheduling / task management / email) and I've been looking at options.
It appears that "Samsung Contact" (formerly HP_OpenMail) may well fit
the bill (and it even allows me to NOT deploy an MSExchange/ActiveDir
server here, huzzah!), but prior to jumping on board another non-open /
single-vendor software solution, I thought I should inquire, does anyone
have...
-> any comments WRT management, stability of the package?
-> strong feelings WRT support provided by Samsung
-> comments about how the functionality compares to (ugh) Exchange ; how
users feel about it generally ?
We've setup a test server here and it seems pretty painless so far ; ie,
"it works" ; the web-client interface appears a tad horrid ; and the
fact that there are ~68 command-line binaries to administer the thing
... seems a tad insane .. however, I guess it is an "enterprise
messaging solution" so maybe I'm lucky it is so "light" (? :-) And - it
does appear to support all the features we want (in particular, central
calendars, availability-at-booking-checks, delegated tasks/todos ,
Outlook integration for Windows users, "feature rich" java-client for
non-windoze/outlook users that actually seems very decent.)
Anyhoo. If anyone has comments, opinions or the like on this topic (or
if you have any other comparable solutions you strongly wish to
mention?) .. please drop me a line.
Thanks!
Tim Chipman
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