OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

Darin Perusich Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com
Tue Nov 13 10:55:15 EST 2007


Have you looked at Funambol for your OSS push email?

David Chait wrote:
> One key piece of functionality that seems to be missing from every OSS 
> solution mentioned thus far is mobile device push support (Activesync), 
> this is not to be underestimated as it is for us, a key reason why we 
> are ultimately being forced to adopt Exchange en-mass and abandon our 
> current Cyrus infrastructure.
> 
> -David
> 
> Joseph Brennan wrote:
>> Ian G Batten <ian.batten at uk.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>   
>>> However, people don't want calendaring, they want Outlook.
>>>     
>>
>> This describes exactly the point of view of administrative staff.  They
>> live in Microsoft Office, and they need a server to support it.  That is
>> the assignment given.
>>
>> I was looking at Open-Xchange on the web <http://www.open-xchange.com/>.
>> The server provides webmail and MAPI interfaces.  The "Hosting Edition"
>> (and maybe the others, it is not clear) can talk to Cyrus and includes
>> ACL support.
>>
>> (We're still running both Exchange for admin staff and Cyrus for the
>> much larger university community of faculty and students.)
>>
>> Joseph Brennan
>> Lead Email Systems Engineer
>> Columbia University Information Technology
>>
>>
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Darin Perusich
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