Open-Xchange

I’ve been playing with a VMWare image of Open-Xchange today. VMWare is a neat way to play with systems, especially ones as invasive as Open-Xchange.

But on to Open-Xchange, it’s a promising alternative to Microsoft Exchange. I’ve only had a chance to play with it a little bit, but it certainly feels nice to use.

My only concerns so far are:

  • No LDAP integration. I feel this is a must these days. Very little of our systems do not authenticate back to the LDAP.
  • No themes. It would be nice if we could theme the interface, but thats not a must by any means
  • No Windows clients except web-based. Ok, there is the Outlook plugin, but thats not GPL. By now I would have hoped to see a real GPL/Open Source plugin for Outlook that actually worked.

Its certainly worth looking further into.

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