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Replacing Exchange

Another one of my software ideas just got picked up and implemented while I twiddled my thumbs. Open Groupware is an open-source replacement for Microsoft Exchange. These guys were rather sneaky about getting around the problem of reverse-engineering the protocol of Exchange. Instead, they wrote a plugin for Outlook that converts MAPI into standard WebDAV-based calls.

Pretty soon there will be a window of opportunity for an infrastructure company that converts small offices to Linux. With a desktop environment like GNOME, Mozilla, Open Office, and server support with Apache, Cyrus IMAP, and Open Groupware, an office could run totally open source.

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One Response to “Replacing Exchange”

  1. Rob Stevenson Says:
    July 13th, 2003 at 7:16 am

    Wow … I remember talking to you outside the Holiday Inn at Crosswoods right after a Sark Monthly Meeting about this. You were so pumped at the thought of developing a replacement for Exchange.

    Course, just think of all the free time you’ve had since then BECAUSE you didn’t try to develop a replacement for Exchange. :-)
    Now you can create a service-oriented business to help install and configure OpenGroupware’s Exchange-like server!

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