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[Mike Williams]

>Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:28:40 -0400
>From: "Scott Van Singel" <svansingel@sturgis.k12.mi.us>
>To: "KLUG (E-mail)" <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
>Subject: [KLUG Members] New LInux products
>Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
>
>Group,
>
>It has been a while since I last looked at this list.
>I had some questions.
>In the ever lasting searching for a better way for software (IE 
stop
>giving our money to MS). I was wondering if
>anyone has come across a new server for Email.
>What I would like to do is, give up our exchange server and replace 
it
>with Linux, however there was not a good
>product last time I looked.
>Has anyone come across one yet?
>
>I would also like to get rid of the MS desktop however most 
education
>programs run in windows only. (Dos and
>16 bit apps).
>Is there anything out there that i could run these education 
programs.

I can't say from personal experience, but a friend of mine runs a 
very capable mail server on Linux.  He uses Courier, I believe.  It's 
not a drop-in replacement for Exchange, but you can run LDAP which 
gets you close.  I think HP Openmail is intended as the drop-in 
Exchange replacement.  I'm not sure what it costs (if anything), but 
Outlook talks to it with the Exchange connector, and all features of 
Exchange are there.

-- 
Mike Williams, knightperson@zuzax.com on 06/24/2002