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Date:      Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:30:57 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Mike Jeays" <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMENFFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1111279870.650.11.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Mike Jeays
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:51 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?
>
>
> I have to disagree with this!  In my organization, a government
> department with about 6,000 staff, the ability to schedule meetings and
> book conference rooms has become an essential part of our computing
> infrastructure.  Any attempt to remove these features or reduce their
> functionality from that provided by Outlook/Exchange would be met with
> considerable hostility and the permanent sidelining of he/she who
> proposed it.  A definite career-limiting move.
>
> It is a major reason why we can't go to a fully open source desktop.

You need to look better.  While calendaring apps aren't as numerous in
the Open Source world, they exist and some have even more functionality
that that provided by Exchange.

Ted



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