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Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com)
News.com
reports on benefits that Netline reaped from open-sourcing its
Open-Xchange e-mail server.
"Frank Hoberg, the chief executive officer of Netline, said this release shows the open-source business model works. He said the company had been able to significantly speed up development by collaborating with the open-source community.
"If we had done everything for this release ourselves--the development and testing--it would have taken 10 times longer," Hoberg said."
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Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com) Posted Oct 8, 2004 8:15 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670) [Link] I read the whole press release and their web pages of marketing blah andI still don't know what this is. Is it the same openexchange that SuSE ships? Is it a package of open source software or are all daemons their own ones? Or yet another web mailer? Why should we use their tools instead of the normal ones? What language are they written? How is security?
Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com) Posted Oct 8, 2004 9:14 UTC (Fri) by eskild (subscriber, #1556) [Link] Please read again:
"The product, previously available on SuSE Linux only, can now be installed on six of the major Linux distributions: Debian, SuSE, Red Hat, Slackware, Mandrake and FreeBSD."
And yes, it's a packaging of open source software (Cyrus, Postfix, etc.) with a web admin frontend of their own, I believe.
Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com) Posted Oct 8, 2004 9:29 UTC (Fri) by dmh (guest, #14528) [Link] I'm sure the developers of the "FreeBSD Linux distribution" will be thrilled to read this. :o)
Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com) Posted Oct 8, 2004 10:46 UTC (Fri) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link] I believe the reason for this software is to replace an M$ Exchange serverwith an OpenSource alternative.
Who needs that? All the pointy haired people who can't live without
Tom
Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com) Posted Oct 8, 2004 12:33 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Exchange's calendar operations are notoriously buggy, but possibly by design. Does this thing match its flawed algorithms, or is O-X meant to do the same job but not precisely the same way?
Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com) Posted Oct 8, 2004 15:33 UTC (Fri) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link] I wouldn't know. We use Exchange at work; but I stay away from the calendar!I haven't looked at O-X, but I suspect that that would work, opensource usually do ;)
Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com) Posted Oct 22, 2004 7:17 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670) [Link] Is it or is it not the same OpenExchange as SuSE's?
Open-sourcing accelerates Open-Xchange development (News.com) Posted Oct 8, 2004 17:18 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] I like the idea of a program that makes Outlook do everything it's supposed to do, but without a Microsoft backend.
What would be better: an entire Outlook replacement that doesn't require purchasing *any* microsoft products, but can do all the things that Big Bosses want to do.
Actually, if it could do all the things they want to do, it would:
carry their golf clubs
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