On Mon, Apr 07, 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Jun Salen wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
What is the closest open source mail server I can replace exchange with that provides the nearest equivalent in user experience?
Thanks! jlc
I use Zimbra OS Edition with more than 300 users, Ajax and HTML capable and very easy to setup. Looks professional in terms of interface. Good community too. The only problem is that it was bought by Yahoo which is planning to buy by M$, but since OS version was GPL, then I assume that the project will continue even after acquired by M$. Maybe.
it is NOT GPL, it is YPL http://www.zimbra.com/license/yahoo_public_license_1.0.html and can not be redistributed without attribution ... so if the M$ buy out happens there is no guarantee that another version could be made under the terms of the YPL.
There has been MUCH dismay about this in the Zimbra forums ... and we will have to see what happens if the buyout happens.
As well there should be. Microsoft has a long history of buying software companies that have *nix solutions that compete with their own products, then killing the *nix versions (RealWorld and other accounting software comes to mind).
At one time HP had a promising Exchange replacement, which they dropped. There are those who think that M$ brought pressure on HP to drop this, and HP probably sells far more systems running Windows than they do running *nix systems.
Bill