Where has all the groupware gone.....

[Marco Steinbach]

Paul Pathiakis wrote on 17.03.2013 20:46:
> Hi,
> 
> I have tried building many pieces of groupware so that I can replace MS at various client sites.
> 
> However:
> 
> zimbra?  No port.  (Hardcoded /opt/zimbra)
> kolab?  No port.    (Hardcoded /kolab  - This could work if they got rid of the idiocy of "OpenPKG")
> (A kolab port could easily be done if all the dependencies their rpms were made into a port for it. - It should work fairly easily with ZFS)
> 
> Citadel?  No port.  Got it working and seems pretty decent.
> 
> SimpleGroupware - Not DB independent, MySQL only
> Tine?  Not DB independent, MySQL only  (Who does that in this day and age?)
> 
> Horde?  Port is cumbersome and very few tips anywhere to get it up and running quickly on FreeBSD  (Is there a doc I can't find?)
> Horde
>  Web?  Same as Horde
> 
> Egroupware?  Sweet... Works nice and seems very useful.  Many compliments from people on how well it works.  
> 
> 
> Phpgroupware?  Not really groupware in the form of the others above.
> 
> I'm just evaluating.  I have no affiliation with any.  However, the lack thereof when we could be inserting groupware FreeBSD servers in clients... :-)
> 
> Thank you for checking into this and creating real ports and/or documentation.
> 
> P.

FYI: A port for SOGo (http://www.sogo.nu) has been submitted.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/175947

MfG CoCo