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Re: A better website for Kolab
by me on Sunday 30/Jan/2005, @19:56

I've read about that, too. From the paper it looks like Kolab is targetting fat-client installations (web interface near to impossible due to offline IMAP4 requirement) with 100.000 and above (overkill for installations <1000?). On the other side the only reference which uses Kolab seems to be the German BSI which sponsors the whole project. BSI might be some hundreds of users at best and certainly doesn't count as a "larger installation".

Are there actually any _large_ Kolab installations? I suppose it would be really great if some references (besides BSI) would be posted in the followup article! So far it sounds like a university research project and I guess people wanting to switch from Exchange are curious about real world examples!

PS: for a large installation I would rather ensure that the mentioned services are maintained by one of the bigger Linux companies which have sufficient resources to ensure proper QA, like in SLES 9 or RedHat AS (or Debian if you want to go for free).

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Re: A better website for Kolab
by Carlo on Tuesday 01/Feb/2005, @08:07

>BSI might be some hundreds of users at best and certainly doesn't count as a "larger installation".

The german authorities do have "a few" hundred thounsand employees...

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Re: A better website for Kolab
by me on Tuesday 01/Feb/2005, @16:26

The German "authorities" do not use Kolab, only BSI is known to actually use it (as mentioned, some deployment examples would be cool for the next article). The current Linux migration guide for German authorities list a lot of groupware servers.

BTW: Besides there are no really "big" German authorities given that this is a federal republic with a lot of smaller ministries (usually some hundreds of users, only sometimes a few thousand). Quite different to for example France where you have huge ministries (with more than 100.000 employees in a single location).

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