[imp] "big three" webmail providers courting campus

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Kevin Konowalec <webadmin at ualberta.ca>:

>
> On May 31, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>
>>
>> To add my own take on this: it sort of depends what you mean by
>> "communicate with exchange". Microsoft makes it very hard to talk to
>> exchange from non-microsoft clients, and for good reason - it's their
>> lock in feature. They put a lot of work into calendaring before other
>> companies or the open source community had anything comparable, and
>> that's why people use Exchange - I've never heard of anyone using it
>> for the mail server, for example.
>>
>> On the other hand it's gotten a lot better at playing nicely with
>> things like iTip, as has IMP. So maybe you could clarify what you'd
>> need? Do you really need to take the administrators off of exchange in
>> order to give the students Kronolith?
>>
>> -chuck
>> --
>
>
> No... what we'd need is for students to be able to view calendars and
> book meetings and whatnot between Kronolith and Exchange.
> Essentially we have a bunch of departments/faculties as well as
> administration that refuse to give up exchange (for the usual
> ridiculous reasons).  The rest of the faculties/departments and the
> student body could use Kronolith.  Ideally there would be a way to
> talk between the two in some meaningful way.  That's not to say we
> wouldn't deploy Kronolith for the students anyway... but things would
> go a lot smoother for us if we could include exchange in the mix
> somehow.

Well, if someone wanted to write a binding (don't know if it is  
possible or not) between Novell Connector  
(http://www.go-evolution.org/Exchange_Architecture) and PHP, for  
example, that would go a long way towards implementing this kind of  
support.



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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]