Price: $1,249 for unlimited email clients and 10 groupware clients; additional groupware licenses start at $249 for 5 licenses
Pros: Nice interface; easy to manage; server software worked well, once it was set up
Cons: A few installation hassles, and failed to install on one of the test machines; price may be a bit steep
System Requirements: CPU: AMD Athlon/Duron, Intel Pentium III/4 or compatible; Memory: 256 MB of RAM; Disk space: 9 GB of free space
Tired of paying through the nose for Microsoft licenses? Want to spend less on groupware? SuSE’s Openexchange Server 4 might just be the solution you need to kick your Microsoft habit or avoid getting hooked altogether.
What You Get
While the name “Openexchange Server 4″ implies that the SuSE product is a wholesale replacement for Microsoft Exchange, unfortunately, that’s not quite true. Instead, Openexchange substitutes Exchange with Open Source equivalents like LDAP and IMAP. As long as you’re okay using a Web-based client for some tasks, Openexchange provides many of the same features as Microsoft’s product.
Installation is a Bit Tricky
My first attempt to install Openexchange on a dual Xeon machine failed.
Next, I tried an…
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