Re: Re: MS Exchange Replacement

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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>Jun Salen wrote:
>>Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>>>What is the closest open source mail server I can replace exchange 
>>>with that provides the nearest equivalent in user experience?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>jlc
>>
>>I use Zimbra OS Edition with more than 300 users, Ajax and HTML capable 
>>and very easy to setup. Looks professional in terms of interface. Good 
>>community too. The only problem is that it was bought by Yahoo which is 
>>planning to buy by M$, but since OS version was GPL, then I assume that 
>>the project will continue even after acquired by M$. Maybe. 
>
>it is NOT GPL, it is YPL 
><http://www.zimbra.com/license/yahoo_public_license_1.0.html> and can 
>not be redistributed without attribution ... so if the M$ buy out 
>happens there is no guarantee that another version could be made under 
>the terms of the YPL.
>
>There has been MUCH dismay about this in the Zimbra forums ... and we 
>will have to see what happens if the buyout happens.

As well there should be.  Microsoft has a long history of buying
software companies that have *nix solutions that compete with
their own products, then killing the *nix versions (RealWorld and
other accounting software comes to mind).

At one time HP had a promising Exchange replacement, which they
dropped.  There are those who think that M$ brought pressure on
HP to drop this, and HP probably sells far more systems running
Windows than they do running *nix systems.

Bill
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