OT: MS Exchange Alternatives

[Jim Holland]

> > > hakon at symfoni.no wrote on 18-10-2006 14:16:
> > >
> > >> There is always Lotus Domino.  Not free, but very nice :-)
> > >
> > > We did an investigation into Exchange, Lotus and Oracle Collaboration
> > > Suite. These three were chosen because we had the experience with all
> > > three systems in one way or another.
> > >
> > > OCS came out best. Lotus was second and Exchange came last. We had some
> > > errors in the investigation corrected (by Microsoft) and Exchange came
> > > in second.

Having used Lotus Notes, I would say that it is a very clever piece of 
software, especially with regards to replication of databases.  However 
the one problem is that it has such an appalling piece of client software 
for mail that I would never recommend it to anyone.  It was just broken in 
so many ways - folders that could be created but not deleted, moving mail 
to folders in some situations would delete the mail, problems with editing 
an original message when copied into a reply, and so on.

Regards

Jim Holland
System Administrator
MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service