I am very skeptical of cloud offerings. I run my own e-mail server at home using Citadel on SL6, which does do calendaring and e-mail, but I don't use calendaring. It's integrated in the web UI, but the UI is pretty 90sish.
I would recommend staying away from Office365 / Microsoft's cloud e-mail service. The two organizations where I know people who have moved to it both find it far inferior to previous in-house e-mail with more frequent downtime and unexplained hours long e-mail lags almost weekly.
There are plenty of e-mail services available, and I would probably have gone with Rackspace e-mail if I didn't want to cheaply host multiple e-mail addresses at home (the cost is not prohibitive for a business however... It's really not prohibitive for a home user either, just running a server is cheaper for my situation for personal e-mail).
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James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University
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Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 12:27 PM
To: Nico Kadel-Garcia
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Subject: Re: Exchange server alternative?
Nico
I tend to agree with you there are so many inexpensive mail services out there now I haven't tried to do this kind of thing in many years.
But its not an option for every one especially it you work for a large company then it can still be cheaper to do it in house or depending on the industry your company is involved in there may be regulatory reasons why SAAS is not an option for any thing considered a document of record like email.
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've not tried that particular tool. I can only say "good luck, we've
> seen that tried many times now". We don't need yet *another* attempt
> at a drop-in replacement.
>
> Break the cycle, and save some money and improve workflow at the same
> time. Email and messaging are now available as very effective SAAS
> products, and you don't need to manage your own SL based systems to
> provide excellent quality services. Save the infrastructure
> requirements for service that *do* need in-house support. Developer
> workstations, Beowulf clusters, proprietary data backups, web services
> for your own applications.
>
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Paul Robert Marino <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> have you looked at openchange http://www.openchange.org/index.html
>> It's been a few years since I looked at it but the goal is to create
>> a exchange server replacement.
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