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Hula brings open source groupware to SMBs

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Linux adoption by small and medium-sized businesses is being held back by the lack of an open source groupware server that's easy to install and configure. SMBs will see little cost advantage from using Linux after adding in the cost an enterprise groupware product. But this problem may soon be a thing of the past, with the recent launch of the Hula project. Hula is an ambitious, open source project jump-started with more than 200,000 lines of code donated from Novell's NetMail product.

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DrDubious ·
I'm still trying to figure out what the strengths and weaknesses are of the three Linux "groupware" systems that Novell has made available. Of course, there's OpenXchange, which as I recall was the first one to be opened up (they recently released 0.8). And, of course, the more recently opened "Hula", as described in this article. And then there's the still-proprietary "GroupWise" Anybody have any pointers to comparisons of these? If I was going to "play with" one, which one would I want to look at first? What actually are the differences between them?
cjcox ·
IMHO...

OpenXchange (aka SLOX) - of dubious origin... sure looks a lot like the older skyrix SLES7 version... was always quite buggy for me and just a web-only interface.

NetMail - From an older Novell acquisition... an ok product but not Novell's favored mail platform.

GroupWise - My vote for what Novell prefers. Full featured... has an intrusive web interface even (intrusive meaning client side sw).

I'd look at GroupWise out of those 3.... if you're looking for the best support out of Novell.

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