[ale] A complete platform

[adam]

Mike Harrison wrote:
> I'm on a quest for a couple of small entities,
> my own company and my wifes (a small law firm)
> and trying to figure out the best complete package of:
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> Calendar, To List, Mail Client,
> Contact list.. etc..
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> That works well with a cell phone (pick any phone)
> that can be synced to the server/desktop.
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> We're even willing to pay money for software,
> and buy new cell phones to match..
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> But it needs to run on Linux, and it needs to be something
> we can host ourselves. (No client data hosted elsewhere).
> We have servers and bandwidth to spare.
> 
> Anyone found a system that works without too much duct-tape?
> 
> I've been ignoring the minor issues until the pain level
> reached critical mass to make a complete overhaul
> of eveything worth the pain.
> 
> Can Sugar be made to do this?
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I'm a bit at a loss as what exactly it is that you're needing...are you 
looking for cell phone software in particular that's going to be working 
with an already established collaboration suite, or are you looking for 
a collaboration suite that has good smart phone support?

Assuming the latter, maybe Zimbra:

http://www.zimbra.com/

It's pretty much a MS Exchange competitor, built on Open Source, and 
comes in a variety of flavors, both free and non-free. It also has a 
very very large community of helpful users and full time developers.

Does great sync with caldav enabled devices (bb support still requires a 
BES server for most useful things, so :( ).

Depending on the size of your companies, this may be a bit overkill, as 
it is built to be a large scale enterprise solution, and has somewhat 
hefty hardware requirements. The upside is that it really does work well 
out of the box. I admin'd it for about a year for several thousand 
users, and it worked like a champ.

Adam