Re: [SAGE] Pointers for developing needs assessment for enterprisemessaging?

["Steve G. Hilliard" <flowman@arches.uga.edu>]

Another vote for Corporate Time--we run v5.0 w/ Corporate Connect, which 
is not a separate product, just a version of CT that pulls acct info 
from our LDAP server.  We've got over 2k users and it runs w/ little 
intervention.  Most users like the CT clients better than the web iface. 

I don't even want to get into email--we run a big DCE cluster w/ 40k 
users and deliver mail into DFS--hairy.

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Todd Olson wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm not sure this is relevant, but ...
> 
> At Cornell University we are doing our shared calendaring with Corporate Time
>    http://www.steltor.com/
> Server system requirements are at
>    http://www.steltor.com/products/index.cfm?fuseaction=product&GrID=cts
> The FAQs at the website suggest there is even a way for outlook to be a
> client of this service.
> 
> We have implemented it on solaris boxes, clients on windows, macs, unix,
> and via web.  It seems to scale, in a distributed manner pretty well.
> We currently have close to 5000 people on one node, with other major
> segments of the university running on other nodes that inter-communicate.
> After a year of studing available products, and now 1.5 years of operation
> it seems as though this product does the job.  As A user I have not
> complaints.  I'm not on the person operating it so I don't know what
> the war stories were/are, but from what I have heard it has not been too bad.
> 
> We do our e-mail via sendmail (on solaris)  (35,000 mailboxes ???)
> with Eudora as the prefered client.
> 
> We've just move the campus directory from an QI/PH implementation
> to an LDAP implementation (on Solaris).  This can be queried from
> with in Eudora, and directly on a web page.  We are looking at accessing
> it from Corporate Time as well.
> 
> It seems to meet our needs for shared calendaring, address books,
> and e-mail.
> 
> I have no idea how this compares to an Exchange environment.
> 
> The flexibility of have the various parts separate but interoperate
> is very nice.  We can upgrade one part with disturbing the other parts.
> 
> Regards,
> Todd Olson
> Cornell University
> 
> 
> 
> >At 02:37 PM 1/4/2002 -0500, Matthew Barr wrote:
> >>At the LISA conference,  I heard mention of a way that allowed a Unix system
> >>to emulate the major features of an Exchange server, such as calendaring, as
> >>well as the obvious email component.  Does anyone have any more detailed
> >>information about this?
> >
> >I think the major resistance most people have to moving away from Exchange is the shared folders and calendar feature.
> 

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Steve G. Hilliard      "........to administer, divine"
Production Systems Administration Support
Enterprise Information Technology Services
University of Georgia