[CS-FSLUG] Help Me Keep Outlook Out (of My Church's Office)

[Jukka Y]

On Tuesday 17 August 2004 02:33, Timothy R.Butler wrote:
> My church's office currently has two users using Outlook, two using
> Outlook Express and two using Thunderbird. Our new office administrator
> wants to replace the Outlook Express and Thunderbird installs with more
> copies of Outlook... and, I think, get a server to run Exchange on.
> This, obviously, is the opposite direction I was hoping we'd move it --
> it just means more security issues, and probably more broken systems
> for me to repair.
>
>   So, I need your help, ASAP. Does anyone know of a good groupware
> solution that will provide functionality comparable to Outlook with
> Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Calendar? Or barring a Mozilla
> solution, some other Outlook alternative for Windows. What I mean is
> that we need shared calendars, shared address books, etc. The server
> can run GNU/Linux or something else, but the clients must be Windows.
> It must be as easy to use (or nearly as easy) as Outlook.
>
>   Is there such a solution? I don't think OpenGroupware or Kolab work
> with Mozilla to provide what needs to be provided, but correct me if
> I'm wrong. I can't imagine having to deal with a Microsoft server and a
> bunch of easily broken into Windows XP systems at church -- that would
> be a mess!
>
>   Help!
>

Maybe Suse's OpenExchange-server:
http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/openexchange/features.html

Demo-site
(user: "red", or "green", or "blue", or "yellow", or "purple" 	
password: "system"):
http://openexchange.suse.de/suse/login.pl?doit=login&lang=en


Blessings,
Jukka