[LUG] Re: FLOSS in public life - Nottingham Council email

[Adrian Midgley <akm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ComputerWeekly article
http://tinyurl.com/b8lz

cost of email reduced to £8 per user per year.

SuSE were consulants on the project.

It doesn't provide calendars and "advanced features" such as 
Exchange or Notes do, but OTOH locally the Acute Trust and other 
bits of the health service have sufficient and sufficiently 
prolonged periods of downtime in the Exchange/Outlook system 
they use AFAIK _only_ for email that vry few people are dumb 
enough to contemplate putting their diaries on it.

Indeed, when it was rolled out a few people did start trying to 
use the Outlook Calendar and share it, and were asked not to, 
since the system was not specced for actual use of that.


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