Comments on: RIP Outlook, the whole company has completed its migration to Zimbra! http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/ Describing our migration to open source software and UK business issues in label printing. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Adrian http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6882 Adrian Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:23:07 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6882 Kevin No problem using this blog material for your case study, please contact me personally if you want interviews or other material. At Mercian Labels we support 2 or 3 academic projects a year with our time (and sometimes expenses), and there is space for a 2008 project if you wisht o put a detailed proposal to us. regs adrian Kevin

No problem using this blog material for your case study, please contact me personally if you want interviews or other material. At Mercian Labels we support 2 or 3 academic projects a year with our time (and sometimes expenses), and there is space for a 2008 project if you wisht o put a detailed proposal to us.

regs

adrian

]]> By: Adrian http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6881 Adrian Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:21:17 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6881 Limulus Once we have migrated the CRM, hopefully early Jan, then we have 2 remaining migration issues, the phone system from Swyx to trixbox, and client OS from W2K to ubuntu. We have to do it in that order becuase swyx in only a windows product. We will use 7.10 and then migrate to 8.04 for LTS, if we arn't in April by then! adrian Limulus

Once we have migrated the CRM, hopefully early Jan, then we have 2 remaining migration issues, the phone system from Swyx to trixbox, and client OS from W2K to ubuntu. We have to do it in that order becuase swyx in only a windows product. We will use 7.10 and then migrate to 8.04 for LTS, if we arn’t in April by then!

adrian

]]> By: Kevin Payne http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6878 Kevin Payne Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:59:24 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6878 Well Done! The main significance is that the project has been done here in the UK, and not in the USA where Open Source solutions are more common. Here in the UK there is still the tendency to think "Open Source" equals "It's For Free" and subsequently roll out Open Office in place of MS Office just to save on the MS Office licence costs, which of course is wrong! This project shows very well the commitment, ups and downs, retaining the business needs focus, and assorted technical problems, all associated with migrating to a total Open Source business solution. As a final year undergraduate degree student in Business Information Systems I am considering using the contents of this blog to form a specific case study, which after analysis will then be included as the core of my dissertation - please let me know if there are any problems / implications in my doing that. It's rare for a company to reveal the problems it has had going the Open Source route, (see link "Why open source projects are not publicised" (ZDNet 2005), http://web.archive.org/web/20051127031507/http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39238437,00.htm So again it has to be - well done! Well Done!

The main significance is that the project has been done here in the UK, and not in the USA where Open Source solutions are more common. Here in the UK there is still the tendency to think “Open Source” equals “It’s For Free” and subsequently roll out Open Office in place of MS Office just to save on the MS Office licence costs, which of course is wrong! This project shows very well the commitment, ups and downs, retaining the business needs focus, and assorted technical problems, all associated with migrating to a total Open Source business solution.

As a final year undergraduate degree student in Business Information Systems I am considering using the contents of this blog to form a specific case study, which after analysis will then be included as the core of my dissertation - please let me know if there are any problems / implications in my doing that.

It’s rare for a company to reveal the problems it has had going the Open Source route, (see link “Why open source projects are not publicised” (ZDNet 2005), http://web.archive.org/web/20051127031507/http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39238437,00.htm
So again it has to be - well done!

]]> By: Limulus http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6855 Limulus Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:14:42 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6855 Congratulations! I hope your Ubuntu migration goes as smoothly; are you planning on using the last LTS release (6.06) or the latest version? (7.10) After the migration, what are your plans for upgrading? (the next release (8.04) will also be a LTS release) Congratulations!

I hope your Ubuntu migration goes as smoothly; are you planning on using the last LTS release (6.06) or the latest version? (7.10) After the migration, what are your plans for upgrading? (the next release (8.04) will also be a LTS release)

]]> By: Adrian http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6851 Adrian Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:38:15 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6851 Thank you Mathew / Alan Thank you Mathew / Alan

]]> By: The Open Sourcerer http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6850 The Open Sourcerer Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:36:29 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6850 Have a great Christmas. I'm really pleased your migration is going well. Alan Have a great Christmas. I’m really pleased your migration is going well.

Alan

]]> By: Matthew Flaschen http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6849 Matthew Flaschen Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:26:04 +0000 http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2007/12/12/rip-outlook-the-whole-company-has-completed-its-migration-to-zimbra/#comment-6849 Congratulations. I'm glad to hear the new system is working well for you, and hope you get your remaining issues resolved quickly. Congratulations. I’m glad to hear the new system is working well for you, and hope you get your remaining issues resolved quickly.

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