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Re: [LUG] Help!! they want to install Outlook!!!!!!!!!!!

 

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 12:25, James Wonnacott wrote:
> Senior Management at my place of work have been told by an "advisor" how
> wonderful it would be to have the school's calender, meeting scheduler
> etc. available to all running on outlook!!!!
> What are the alternatives? I'm hoping for something web-based,
> accessible from inside and outside the school hosted on our apache
> server that I have running on Mandrake 10.1 at present.
> I need to find some good alternatives soon or I'm going to get
> steamrollered down the mickey-mousetrosoft route :-(
>

Take a look at Zimbra:
http://www.zimbra.com/

It seems to do everything Outlook can do, all through a web interface.

I've played with the online demo [1] and it looks fantastic. It's commercial, 
but there's a pretty complete open source edition available.

HTH,
David.

[1] http://www.zimbra.com/products/hosted_demo.php

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