[oclug] Accounting Software

[Chris Herrnberger]

On Friday 11 July 2003 11:18, Dave Edwards wrote:

Some background. 

SKyrix is the supplier and for SuSE's Exchange Server that has been available 
for almost 2.5 years now under different names. While not well known in NA 
its a rather common entity in the backoffice of european corps, smb's and 
smc's. Its rock solid and tested. The name change was percipated by a change 
in the operating system code base from SuSE linux to united linux to which 
SuSE is a contributor. 

SKyrix has now open sourced their code component: groupware package. They do 
not own the plugins and as far as I know they are currently commercial 
products and extend the functionality of standards compliant design to 
communicate with propriatory platforms. ie: exchange server, and others etc. 

This is indeed wonderfull news for the OS community but more importantly for 
developers of client based software be it OS, which we prefer, or commercial 
as the entire back end is documented, accessible and plays nicely with known 
standards. There is nothing like a good OS project to stick it litterly in 
the backend of propriatory offerings...:)

More info is available at the site http://opengroupware.org

/ch