It would have been a good incentive to pay Zimbra team and get their paid version rather the movin back to exchange, still it would have been cheaper.
I personally think that moving back to exchange had a fundamental thought process problem then with features, if main product is free its expected to get everything possible free of cost.
Regards, Mitul Limbani Enterux Solutions www.enterux.com
Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 17:37 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
Could you give a few examples? The ones I have used have
full-featured
open-source editions.
zimbra
actually a pretty large industrial group in Coimbatore migrated to zimbra 'community edition' - in one month they migrated back to Microsoft exchange. Reason - 1. grindingly slow, and more important 2. very rudimentary search features. These problems are not there in the editions developed in the closet. There are hundreds of these bogus open source apps around. Although there are quite a few where there is a single edition - the paid for plans offer support and customisation, but the code is the same.
-- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 20:56 +0530, mitul@enterux.com wrote:
It would have been a good incentive to pay Zimbra team and get their paid version rather the movin back to exchange, still it would have been cheaper.
actually their motivation was wrong in the first place - the head of their open source division is an idealist - hard core GPL weenie. So he just saw GPL and decided to go for it. Since the company has the licenses for exchange which they had paid for, it did not cost them anything to go back to exchange. (since they do BPO work, they have a blanket license from microsoft for all it's software)
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