Comment on A new start by CK

CK — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:46:13 +0000

Many thanks to everyone for the wishes and the positive reaction I’ll post news as soon as there are some. A private beta is hopefully not _too_ far!

Comment on A new start by Andy Edmonds

Andy Edmonds — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:34:56 +0000

Best of Luck, Costas!

Comment on A new start by Panagiotis Astithas

Panagiotis Astithas — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:59:23 +0000

You can’t go wrong listening to your heart. Knock our socks off!

Comment on A new start by Georgios

Georgios — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:03:29 +0000

Good Luck from me too! Your decision is inspiring for all of us!

Comment on A new start by Ramin

Ramin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:57:27 +0000

All the best for your new endeavor.

Comment on A new start by Alkis

Alkis — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:35:13 +0000

Good luck mate! Keep us posted…

Comment on A new start by adamo

adamo — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:50:18 +0000

Good luck! I am waiting to hear more details though

Comment on My personal little “cloud” by Yannis

Yannis — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:39:37 +0000

Regarding the thorny issue of keeping updated the address-book and the calendar from different OSes and platforms, we have to admit that unfortunately the non-bundled solutions suffer.

As you are aware, the SOGO connector plug-in, unfortunately, did not catch-up with thunderbird’s aggressive development cycles. Hence, it is not available in version 8 & 9 of the famous MUA. There are many references out there and is some of them, it is mentioned that thunderbird’s address book may eventually incorporate some WebDAV/CardDAV functionality in future releases (let’s cross our fingers).

For me downgrading thunderbird was not an acceptable solution, neither installing an alternative one. So, I decided to reconsider my alternatives. One of them was installing Zimbra 6.0 to my FreeBSD. Even-though it compiled successfully some minor issues with the integrated LDAP prevented my from using it. So, I tried installing ZCS version 7.0 in a fresh Ubuntu installation. Things were straight forward. A simple “apt-get install” worked like a charm. The environment is fancy, friendly and scales very well. I was impressed.

On the other side of the river, when it comes to the desktop integration, gnome’s PIM utility “evolution” has *native* support for both CardDAV/CalDAV, which means that syncing works out of the box. Same applies more or less with KDE’s utils even though I had some minor issues with, what else, akonadi. Last but not least, thunderbird has an updated address book plugin and lightning support CalDAV. Same applies for OSX and iOS. Both of them have embedded the required functionality, so if you own an iPhone you don’t have to mess with third-party utilities. A quick search revealed that many applications also exist for android phones. There are also references for Nokia phones (http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Nokia_E-Series) but I don’t own one so I cannot confirm anything.

Bad news left for the epilogue, ZCS relies on a bunch of packages, like openldap, apache etc, which are installed by the suite in their own ecosystem. That makes the co-existance of another apache instance quite complicated. I am not saying it is impossible but it needs a little of a tweak to make it work or you can simply decide to use other ports for apache.

Concluding, I have to admit that I am thinking to re-design my server and migrate to ZCS

Comment on A short poll by CK

CK — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:05:59 +0000

Thanks to both!

Comment on A short poll by adamo

adamo — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:58:30 +0000

Well I am paying $36 / year for MetaARPA membership at SDF.

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