Hi Alan,

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@(protected):

> On Wednesday 23 April 2008, James wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I just found this page:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/
>>
>> Groupware is the general category. My questions are:
>>
>> Has anyone installed this and if so how do you like it?
>
> It sucks. It sucks so much I dare not describe how and why for fear of
> falling afoul of libel laws.

Give it a try, please :)

>
> Impi tried to use it. Impi is a South African Ubuntu derivative owned by
> Canonical intended to be sold to governments and large corporates.
> Kolab is infested with super-secret proprietary stuff that is anything
> but free software, all due to the way the German government structured
> the Kolab tender process.

This is incorrect and I don't believe you will be able to clearly
identify any "super-secret proprietary stuff" within Kolab. But as
said above: Please give it a try.

> Apparently it only really works with KMail.

To correct this: While Kontact is the primary client, it works fine
with Outlook and Thunderbird, too. In addition have the Horde
webmailer. Kolab has a pretty good if not the best Cross-OS client
coverage in the area of groupware servers.

>
> If you are really interested in Kolab, I would advise you to do a proof
> of concept trial run for real and make up your own mind.

Thats probably always good :)

Cheers,

Gunnar

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