ZIMBRA NETWORK EDITION LICENSING COSTS WINDOWS
The time has come to consider moving that expensive, high-maintenance Windows system to a sleeker, more robust Linux system.Īlthough migrating users from applications such as Microsoft Office to is generally an intuitive task, the 800-pound gorilla that’s keeping you up at night is e-mail and groupware. “ Microsoft Exchange, Meet Your Replacement We make our very best work available to everyone on the same terms.” Unlike other groupware servers, it isn’t a cut-down version of an expensive proprietary ‘pro’ version. “Citadel is here today and is actively maintained – it’s neither vaporware nor abandonware.Ĭitadel is true open source (GPL) software. There are a number of solutions that on the very face of it appear to be more attractive than Zimbra.Īpart from those already mentioned, here is yet another possibility: With Zimbra, you pay that price per user every year, so over 5 years, it is more expensive than Exchange in per user costs. I’m pretty sure migrating 8000 accounts and 3000 domains is a pain no matter what system you migrate to and from. I invested a TON TON TON of time migrating some 8000 odd accounts and 3000 domains Never used the load blanacing so I cant say anything about that. Never had any problem with the backup procedure being asinine. I dont know why you put load balancing and backup in the same point but whatever. Eat resources? Maybe, but don’t tell me Exchange doesn’t. Not that I know what you mean by “fscking out of control”.Īgain, I dont know what you’re on about. I dont know where you got your licenses but we dont have that problem. I consider this irrelevant as long as it works. The desktop client is a dog though but that’s why you have the Outlook plugin.
ZIMBRA NETWORK EDITION LICENSING COSTS SERIES
Maybe it was previously but the 5.x series is not. I invested a TON TON TON of time migrating some 8000 odd accounts and 3000 domains, and I’ve got to say, I’ll never touch it again. I think most of my complaints are more so how unix developers tend to approach problems… than the actual server itself. WAY WAY hefty.Ģ) Its built on common unix mailers and packages etc (yeah I guess it could be a positive and a negative, however I consider it mostly a negative)ģ) Licensing and pricing is f–king out of control.Ĥ) Configs, startup scripts are fragile as hell, and the server would eat resources until ultimately it’d stop accepting connections.ĥ) Load balancing, Backup procedures etc are assinine, even for the commercially supported version. (Please note I’ve run tons of zimbra servers in production for a couple years, so I do have plenty of experience)ġ) web ui is sluggish and slow, and the “desktop” client is an entire webapp server distribution etc. I know some bright person will suggest zimbra, I am about to suggest why you WOULDNT want to use zimbra.
Its an unfortunate state of affairs with open source etc.
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