Comments on: Has Open-Xchange Given Up on Novell?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:23:53 +0000

These are clearly not the most stable and mature distributions for the server. Debian or RHEL would have probably made more sense for Open-Xchange. At work I use KDE on top of Ubuntu (not Kubuntu), so I can say it’s decent enough for the desktop. Virtually no downtime/reboots since I had it installed, but KDE acts funny once in a couple of weeks.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:44:39 +0000

Open-Xchange is a great product but was overkill for Novell (Groupwise, Netmail, HULA etc etc).

The rest though (choosing Ubuntu) looks to be a case of political posturing after a bitter separation – call it divorce retribution if you will.

Certainly, the technical merits of Ubuntu are easy to see, it’s a great distribution, as is openSUSE. But the article you’ve linked to doesn’t make enough of a distinction to warrant a winner on any attribute other than personal choice (one of the great things about opensource).

The authors comment “Kubuntu, the distro I’ve despised until now is my new mate.” sums up the articles mediocrity.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:38:45 +0000

Unfortunately, Novell’s small business offering is not the best at the moment, based on comments I’ve read by NetWare based small business veterans. It’s not a cohesive package like the NetWare based one. Even then, GroupWise would probably take point for collaboration tools. I’ve never understood the point of Open Exchange as a best of breed product on Novell servers. Although, for what it’s worth, I’ve never used it so it’s hard to compare objectively.

In the end, you can still run OE on Suse if you want. You just can’t buy an appliance that runs Suse.