Daily Archives: September 23, 2008

MS Exchange Alternatives

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If you don’t want to run an MS Exchange server, but you do want to have the groupware functions such as sharing calendars, emails, notes, contacts, etc. there are a few semi open alternatives you can try which also support phone synchronisation.

Most support webbased functionality and allow you to attach any client to it, some come with their own suite of clients.

But if you want to use your Outlook client, all of them require you to buy a connector.

Sogo (connector via which requires Samba4)

OpenGroupware.org Ogo

Scalix

Kolab

Zimbra

Zafara

Citadel

Open Xchange

Unison has a client and server setup which also includes IM and a PBX for IP telephony.

Most work quite a bit like Outlook, but Citadel is totally different, out of the box.

Apple goes patent nuts again!

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We’ve covered how Apple has stolen the Ipod from a broke British bloke before (here) and how they’ve ripped the design of the new Nano from Cupertino (here) and whilst we haven’t covered that before, it turns out that the OS-X desktop launch bar (the thing on the bottom) has marked similarities to Konfabulator. Now, Apple has taken it in their head to attempts to patent a pre-existing display software idea, namely Intelliscreen’s notifier for jailbroken ipones.

EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to Stop Illegal Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and communications records. The five individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and other individuals who ordered or participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance.

EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to Stop Illegal Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Whilst I wish the EFF all the luck in the world, justice in the States is not a function of right or wrong, but in these cases a function of money. And I have a slight suspicion that these guys have a whole load more money than the EFF. Good job on at any rate making it look like the US wants to hold their leadership accountable for their actions.