Re: Linux in a School envrionment

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>We have the Netscape email server in place now. (Iplanet) and from what I can
>>tell, Iplanet and SUN have alligend together for these products. When AOL
>>bought Netscape (I was upset to hear that Netscape was bought by AOL) they
>>joined with SUN and now SUN suppports this system. From what I have read so
>>far, this software supports Email, Calendar, file sharing, and instant
>>messaging.
>I was wondering if anyone has had some experience with this product. I looked
>on Iplanet and SUN's web site and they have a fully enterprise software that
>inter grades with the Netscape browser. We might stay with Netscape and
>purchase the latest calendar and then some tech support to get this software
>running. OK, now I found out that the calendar does not work on Linux but 
>Sun Salarios and NT systems. This is really frustrating. I want to incorporate
>Linux in this school but, you can not find good answers or a company that has 
>a good product with support in the Linux field.

Did you look at HP Openmail?  http://www.bynari.net/ also sells a server/client package,  but I don't know anything about it.