On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:44, Peter Farrow wrote:
Can any one recommend a decent groupware package that runs on Linux,
I've looked at OpenExchange, and Kolab both of which look good,
Regards
Pete
I built Kolab on Aurora Linux 2.0beta on an E5500 8 proc box a couple of weeks ago, and it seems to work quite well. The only caveat as that, while you build Kolab, and when you initialize it the first time, SELinux needs to be set to nonenforcing or disabled (which, IIRC, is the way you prefer to run anyway, so shouldn't bother you). I have successfully build Kolab on CentOS 4.2, and it was fairly easy, although it does take quite a bit of time (took an hour and a half on a Xeon 2.8 with 1GB RAM, and eight hours on the E5500 (the build only used one proc)). You use the OpenPKG system, which rebuilds from source RPMs and sets up its own 'sub-distribution' sequestered away from the main distribution.
For our purposes, the draw was the integration with Outlook and Kontact simultaneously; that is, folders can be shared between Outlook clients and Kontact clients, including contacts, calendars, and shared e-mail folders. I have tested and used the Outlook plugin called Toltec, and it seems to work quite well and very seamlessly, on the Outlook side.
I've installed eGroupWare in numerous locations and it works very well with CentOS and comes in rpm packages. It has some Outlook functionality as well, but I've not tested it yet. All sites I've setup use it strictly via web browsers.
~Dan