[leglug-users] small office email/collaborative system

[naim abu darwish]

there are a million CMS's to use, you can buy some, you can hire
someone to make something, you can get a closed solution and get stuck
with it ( could be fine, or not so so fine) ..
To make a long discussion short, 90 % of the problem is to define what
you want exactly. How often will your content change, how will you be
updating your system to reflect  those changes. who are the users of
your system, admins? .. and a thousand and one other questions to ask
...
after that, i can suggest a couple of choices::

(*) Think of a word processos, a spread sheet program, a something,
combine that with a wiki with alot of plugins available, you get TWiki
http://www.twiki.org


Think of going to the industrial city to buy parts for your homemade
kit car, you get  Bourj Hammoud area. Similar to that, think of a
community that is working on assembling parts for any portal, CMS,
with proper documentation and a wide userbase, its like walking into a
jungle really ...
http://www.drupal.org
You can really use this for anything, takes a bit of time to master,
but once you know how to use it, you will use it for anything.

On 3/20/07, BashLogic <bashlogic at gmail.com> wrote:
> greetz
>
> i think you have misinterpreted the zimbra support.
> it works just fine, there are certain features that it lacks
> and certain things that you would have to do manually.
>
> in short for a soho or a midsized company it still should
> work.
>
> if you look under the hood, you would notice that it
> actually is running postfix + amavis etc..
>
> so should it be required, a bit of hacking should get you there,
> that is part of what opensource is :)
>
> you can have zimbra run nicelly out of install on
> ubuntu tls with no probs.
>
>
> regards
> BL
>
>
> On 3/20/07, Mohammed Shublaq <moshub at riseup.net> wrote:
> > thanks for your replies guys. I'm looking for something that offers in
> > addition to mailing, collaborative calendar and some project management
> > thing. so far, there has been zimbra and "exchange 4 linux", open
> > exchange, but they are not for free or offer limited community edition.
> > kolab sounds good choice which i'm giving a try tomorrow. my last option
> > will be egroupware and citadel
> > please send me your comments or past experience in this issue
> > thanks
> > MO
> >
> > George H wrote:
> > > You got several different ones..  vTiger, SugarCRM, OpenCRX, eGroupware
> > > Personally each one is different and depends on your company's needs.
> > >
> > > On 3/16/07, Mohammed Shublaq <moshub at riseup.net> wrote:
> > >> hello all
> > >> has any one experienced an enterprise-level FOSS emailing and groupware
> > >> system [personal/collaborative calendar, contacts sharing,...] that can
> > >> substitute  M$ exchange/SBS server.
> > >>
> > >> thanks
> > >> M
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