Munich standardizes on Kolab for its groupware

in linux on 2014-03-04 10:14 (#3F3)

If you've been following the trials and tribulations of German city Munich's transition from Windows to Linux, you know they've moved 15,500 desktops onto Linux. They've now taken the next step and selected a standardized groupware solution for communication: Kolab. What, you were expecting Exchange Server?

Re: What came before (Score: 2, Interesting)

by mverwijs@pipedot.org on 2014-03-05 13:54 (#9N)

Their French brethren have come up with a proxying client that translates all the proprietary MAPI stuff into open standards (IMAP, SMTP, CARDDAV, Caldav). It's here: http://davmail.sf.net/. I've used it at corporate clients any number of times without a hitch.