We can't afford Exchange, and we won't even look at Lotus Notes.
That leaves us with the Opensource community.
Of all the projects that I've looked at, Opengroupware appeared the most complete, most usable. Until I went to install it. Our intranet server, the target machine for this, is running Ubuntu Linux. "Oh, we're going to release ubuntu packages when we release v1.0"
They're on 1.2. No Ubuntu packages in sight. The Debian packages work on Ubuntu with the "minor" issue of not actually working. The solution? "Use Fedora Core."
First and foremost, telling a system administrator, even of a small organization, to change his operating system is the WORST thing you can do. And no, I won't add another box for this so I can use a different OS, because that makes documentation a nightmare - and increases the learning curve for everyone down the road.
And beyond that, Fedora Core is presently at version 5, and has been for awhile. They only have stable releases that support Fedora Core 2 and 3. They have snapshots that support Fedora Core 4. Nothing for 5.
So, either I'm going to turn our in-house development team loose on this problem (which would be interesting, because we could make a lot of productivity optimizations unique to our environment).
Also, an opensource document management system would be really, really cool.
That leaves us with the Opensource community.
Of all the projects that I've looked at, Opengroupware appeared the most complete, most usable. Until I went to install it. Our intranet server, the target machine for this, is running Ubuntu Linux. "Oh, we're going to release ubuntu packages when we release v1.0"
They're on 1.2. No Ubuntu packages in sight. The Debian packages work on Ubuntu with the "minor" issue of not actually working. The solution? "Use Fedora Core."
First and foremost, telling a system administrator, even of a small organization, to change his operating system is the WORST thing you can do. And no, I won't add another box for this so I can use a different OS, because that makes documentation a nightmare - and increases the learning curve for everyone down the road.
And beyond that, Fedora Core is presently at version 5, and has been for awhile. They only have stable releases that support Fedora Core 2 and 3. They have snapshots that support Fedora Core 4. Nothing for 5.
So, either I'm going to turn our in-house development team loose on this problem (which would be interesting, because we could make a lot of productivity optimizations unique to our environment).
Also, an opensource document management system would be really, really cool.
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