Re: Zimbra Email in Linux Partition on iSeries

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
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> > 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
>
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