Linux Alternative to Windows Servers

I would like to know what I could do as an alternative to a Windows Server
and an Exchange Server. I have Windows workstations using Outlook, but I
would like to centralize the contacts, schedules and address book. Is there
a cheap Linux alternative?

Cheers,

Mike

Mike Cocker wrote:

> I would like to know what I could do as an alternative to a Windows Server
> and an Exchange Server. I have Windows workstations using Outlook, but I
> would like to centralize the contacts, schedules and address book. Is
> there a cheap Linux alternative?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike

Ximian.

Look at their website (connector for Exchange).

Not cheap, but cheaper. If you don;t have to kid-on you are an exchange
server precisely, then your problesm are lowered. Many thiongs will act the
correct way (it's just that nothing integrates them all as seamlessly as
Evolution does it). That may be the reason that it is so badly engineered -
easy to use, easy to break...

The world rejoiced as Mark Hackett <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Mike Cocker wrote:
>
>> I would like to know what I could do as an alternative to a Windows Server
>> and an Exchange Server. I have Windows workstations using Outlook, but I
>> would like to centralize the contacts, schedules and address book. Is
>> there a cheap Linux alternative?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mike
>
> Ximian.
>
> Look at their website (connector for Exchange).
>
> Not cheap, but cheaper. If you don;t have to kid-on you are an
> exchange server precisely, then your problesm are lowered. Many
> thiongs will act the correct way (it's just that nothing integrates
> them all as seamlessly as Evolution does it). That may be the reason
> that it is so badly engineered - easy to use, easy to break...

The thing is, Ximian Connector is an alternative to _Outlook_. It
requires that you run Exchange Server on Windows NT.

Ximian is essentially selling you a product that requires that you use
Microsoft products; it offers no capability to migrate you off of
that.

In effect, you are recommending the exact opposite of what the
O.P. was requesting; you're forcing Windows and Exchange on him when
he wanted to get away from that, and telling him he has to pay a
pretty penny to do so.

Samsung and Bynari have plausible products; they're not free, but they
have the merit that the server software runs on Linux, as opposed to
Windows NT...
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