SOGo-Competition for Zimbra and MS-Exchange 1

Posted by JD 12/20/2010 at 06:58

Messaging is easy, but Enterprise Calendaring is hard. I’ve just learned about the guys over at SOGo who have a GPL/LGPL competitor to Zimbra and MS-Exchange. Sure, you pay for support, but using the server software doesn’t cost anything.

  • If you want to connect MS-Outlook clients, that’s fine.
  • If you want to connect smart-phones, that’s fine.
  • Thunderbird seems to be their main integration client, which is nice. That’s what I use.

Anyway, go take a look.

I’ve just pulled the VM appliance VMDK down and will be playing with it on ESXi in the next few weeks. They claim it was setup for VirtualBox, but I’d rather not run this sort of thing on that VM technology. This could be perfect timing for my company – we have been planning a Zimbra upgrade and honestly, it scares me.

There are lots of search hits on SOGo on freshmeat.net – that’s encouraging to me.

Check back here later. If SOGo is great, I’ll certainly write more. If it is crap, it will be in the comments below.

This could be good, really good. I’m hopeful.

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  1. JD 02/08/2011 at 19:54

    ZOGo Testing …
    So I finally imported the ZOGo vmdk file and played with it for about 30 minutes. It was a little plain and it was missing some really important features (cancel a new message?). I didn’t look too deep and didn’t try tweaking anything before giving up and deleting the virtual machine.

    Zimbra is vastly more complete even with a 3 yr old version.

    I’m hopeful that ZOGo will mature into a complete replacement for Zimbra and MS-Exchange at some point, but they aren’t there yet IMHO.