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

[Frank Bax]

At 11:27 PM 8/16/04, Jukka Y wrote:

>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


Or maybe wait until next month?
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