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

[Rob Banz]

On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:01, Zachariah Mully wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:25 +0000, Ian G Batten wrote:
>> On 13 Nov 07, at 1505, 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.
>>
>> There's purported to be a solution from Concilliant.  http://
>> www.consilient.com/media/2005/c2-for-cyrus.html
>>
>> ian
>
> Be forewarned, last I had checked on this the licensing costs were a  
> bit
> onerous IMO. The software was basically a repackaged BES with their
> custom client software.

After trying consilient, and becoming very frustrated with it, we went  
with a vendor called NotifyLink for our wireless devices.  Their  
product worked well with our crackberrys & palms, integrating with  
Cyrus and Oracle Calendar.

-rob