Comparing groupware

I now have gotten some time available to play with technology again, and I have set out to find the groupware to use in Arktekk.
Since none of us are using windows operating system, exchange is not really an option, so I have created myself a little short list of requirements that I think a good candidate should have (in no particular order).

  • Shared calendars
  • Shared imap folders
  • Mailing lists
  • Good user management preferably LDAP (so that I can also use it with e.g. Subversion)
  • Nice looking web-mail, with good ajaxy touch to it
  • iCal/iSync support (we are all using Mac’s in our company)
  • Able to be deployed on a Linux platform
  • Open Source
  • As cheap as possible :)

Here are the ones I am currently looking into :

  • Open Xchange
  • Scalix
  • Kerio
  • Zimbra
  • eGroupWare
  • OpenGroupware

I will write a small post on each and one of them with the pro’s and con’s, and then at the end say which one of them I found to be best. If there are some other candidates out there I have not mentioned, please drop me a comment so I can test it out


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