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Munich standardizes on Kolab for its groupware

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What came before (Score: 2, Interesting)

by tempest@pipedot.org on 2014-03-04 14:20 (#9A)

Assuming they had the typical corporate setup, I'd assume before they had something like Outlook/Exchange before they migrated last year. So what are they using now?

Re: What came before (Score: 5, Funny)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-03-04 19:02 (#9E)

Kolab?

Re: What came before (Score: 3, Interesting)

by tempest@pipedot.org on 2014-03-04 19:07 (#9F)

Well if they switched to Linux last year and they're only now going to Kolab, they must be using something in that gap. Although now that I think on it, maybe they're just toughing out the loss in functionality temporarily. Or they stuck with Exchange (assuming that's what they used) and are interfacing with that, which I'd be interested to know how that went.

Re: What came before (Score: 5, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-03-05 11:49 (#9M)

It's not impossible, though it's not ideal: even Exchange allows IMAP functionality, I'm told, though you have to manually make it available. Let's say you have existing Microsoft software ecosystem and want to make a switch. Me, I'd start by changing out Exchange first and let everyone continue to use Outlook as an IMAP client to whatever Linux solution I had on the back end.

But if for some reason they started with the desktops, then they could have conceivably just let Exchange continue as an IMAP server in the gap. Obviously, we could probably learn something by reading the article before speculating, but what fun is that?

I've followed Kolab on and off since at least 2001, when the Kompany was still around (rememeber them? Produced Rekall, the first good GUI MySQL database software for Linux?). Kolab was just getting started and everyone was hot to produce a decent Exchange replacement. Looks like they made huge strides since then - congrats to them.

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