Re: Zimbra Email in Linux Partition on iSeries

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gkern, you don't mention what flavor of linux you would run.  If you have
support etc from the likes of redhat and or suse I would think the install
process of zimbra would be much easiear if you encourntered any problems.
I noticed there is a zimbra client, have you tried that at all to get a
feel for the product, they have an online demo as well.  If your going to
run linux at your shop and you want to run purchased or open source
software then on what platform would you rather do this on, I sounds like a
good choice.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:59 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes we run Communigate. It came from Stalker Software years ago which
> was i based. Currently they support a crapload of distributions and
> "AS/400" as they put it, is on the list. It actually runs natively as
> one ginormous heavily threaded executable. And it runs quite well actually.
>
> It has features on it's features. It supports private web sites, FTP
> sites, mailing lists, file storage, SIP et al, several web interfaces
> including a quite nice flash interface, IMAP, POP, CalDav, iCal, and
> much much much more.
>
> Two things to watch for with Communigate:
>
> 1) They are not completely up to speed (so to speak) on i. They still
> compile on something like V4R4 but we finally convinced them a while
> back to compile WITH observability left in so the thing will migrate and
> run on i 6.1 and i 7.1.  The i distribution still has issues with CalDav
> support (as in itnoworkie) but they seem not to care....  Their POWER
> linux distribution runs likketey split with right around a 2 second
> start-up time and is current and fully supported.
>
> 2) They have like 1 guy still familiar with i. He's good and knows what
> he's doing but when you have issues and they don't get him involved it
> can be difficult. Luckily issues are few and far between.
>
> 3) They are making with the price increases as well. One of my customers
> who runs Communigate with 2,000 users was told this week about new
> pricing and it was, um, "Lotus-like". Apparently they have been
> purchased again and the new owners wish to recoup their money by
> Tuesday. :-)
>
>   - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> On 11/10/2011 7:27 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
> > Then you might want to look at Communigate (http://www.communigate.com)
> - I believe the good Doctor F. is still running it. Runs in PASE if I
> recall correctly.
> > I notice from this chart (
> http://www.communigate.com/main/purchase/download.html) that they run on
> multiple Linux versions as well as mainframe and goodness knows what else.
> I tried it briefly a while ago and was quite impressed by it.
> > On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:40 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > subject: Re: Zimbra Email in Linux Partition on iSeries
> > >
> > > Thanks for the responses.
> > >
> > > We're evaluating Zimbra because the licensing and support costs for
> Notes
> > > is getting more scrutiny from Finance and Zimbra appears to be a lot
> less
> > > costly.
> > Jon Paris
> >
> > www.partner400.com
> > www.SystemiDeveloper.com <http://www.systemideveloper.com/>
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