{"id":127,"date":"2005-09-28T04:27:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1072"},"modified":"2005-09-28T04:27:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T11:27:12","slug":"migrating-from-commercial-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Migrating from commercial software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm sure we all remember the colourful discussion on Exchange and open source alternatives (start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/814\">here for my final post<\/a> on the topic) that took place between myself and Alex Scoble just a few weeks back. <\/p>\n<p>Lots of interesting comments, from both sides, came out from that discussion, and like all good debates there were no real winners.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there's another active conversation (I use the term loosely) on the topic taking place on Slashdot after the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/09\/27\/2158240&#038;from=rss\">Zimbra Collaboration Suite<\/a>. Inevitably some of the same topics are coming up - including the down, and up, sides of Exchange's data model, hardware requirements and flexibility. All of them come with fiarly good comments on observations from both sides of the fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we all remember the colourful discussion on Exchange and open source alternatives (start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/814\">here for my final post<\/a> on the topic) that took place between myself and Alex Scoble just a few weeks back. <\/p>\n<p>Lots of interesting comments, from both sides, came out from that discussion, and like all good debates there were no real winners.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there&#8217;s another active conversation (I use the term loosely) on the topic taking place on Slashdot after the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/09\/27\/2158240&#038;from=rss\">Zimbra Collaboration Suite<\/a>. Inevitably some of the same topics are coming up &#8211; including the down, and up, sides of Exchange&#8217;s data model, hardware requirements and flexibility. All of them come with fiarly good comments on observations from both sides of the fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}