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[Dan Ferris]

Having now played with SuSE Openexchange I can say that it is pretty 
awesome.  I think it cost the company I'm with at the moment less than 
$3000 for 60 users.  Exchange 2000 would be over 10 grand for 60 
people.  Not to mention OpenExchange never crashes. 

Andrew Diederich wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Ferris wrote:
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>>Suse OpenExchange is a good exchange alternative.  It uses Postfix for 
>>the mail server, it has excellent web based configuration tools.  (It 
>>isn't free though, but is a LOT cheaper than MS Exchenge).  You can also 
>>use OpenExchange for regular user authentication since it uses LDAP for 
>>its user database.
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>SuSE has done a good job adding new features to their mail server product.
>That being said, I've never used the thing, but have followed the press
>releases in case I was ever allowed to dump Exchange.  
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>What impresed me originally was they picked postfix, openldap, and cyrus
>IMAP (plus SuSE linux) for it.  I had to build a single-use app for 
>an email server (minus the web front end), and after a bunch of research
>I used the same pieces.  It could just be that I'm vain, but I like
>their components anyway.
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>They have a demo at http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/openexchange/Online_Demo.html
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