Groupware Mail Server Hosted Solution On Linux

Email communications have become the lifeline of any organization – big or small. However, the generic mailing solution is just a mail-in mail-out solution with no bells and whistles to aid the productivity of an organization. This is where Groupware solutions come into play.

Outlook is most popular desktop client in corporate environment. Whereas it connects well with a generic mail server (windows or linux based), but not all the power of outlook can be used. The productivity components like calendaring, task scheduling, meetings etc feature of outlook can never be used in a collaborative environment on a generic mail server.

One of the most popular collaboration mail-server is MS Exchange but it comes at steep licensing costs if one needs to deploy onsite/inhouse. Add to this the maintenance costs, software upgrade cycle costs, hardware spares maintenance, highly skilled IT staff to manage a MS Exchange server and the cost per seat could spiral up quickly. This is in addition to the recurring costs of Windows Server OS. With world moving to cloud based options, these costs are eliminated as all the server side responsibilities and setup moves to the cloud.

However, MS Exchange hosted solution still remains one of the most expensive solutions in market, making it out of reach of SMB’s and SME’s. This is where LINUX server based MS Exchange alternatives have delivered a viable solution. The hosted solutions based on Linux server are based on many proprietary solutions like Scalix, Zimbra, Communigate Pro, Axigen etc.

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