http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration.aspxenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30414.1743)http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/reviews/17018.aspxFri, 28 Nov 2008 06:35:01 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:17018williamBase is a quality desktop database application shipped as part of OpenOffice, a free, open source Office suite. While it is a quality option for small database solutions, it has not gained on that which it tries to emulate. Installation Rating Installation Operations and Performance Extensibility Installation of Base as part of OpenOffice was simpl...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/articles/15910.aspxFri, 21 Nov 2008 00:41:48 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:15910RondaRobertsThis article takes a look at five e-mail client alternatives to Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook is one of the most popular e-mail clients available for messaging and communication. While it is popular, it has its weak spots. The price of this program can be a setback, and Outlook may offer functions not needed. Some of the alternatives to Micr...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/blog/archive/2008/11/04/openxchange-gets-new-life-funding.aspxWed, 05 Nov 2008 02:55:21 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:13972williamIn a somewhat challenging and uncertain economic environment, Open-Xchange has been able to secure an additional $9 million US in financing to produce a more competitive version of its messaging and collaboration product. Open-Xchange markets itself as an Open Source alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server . It offers server, appliance and hosting...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/articles/13486.aspxFri, 31 Oct 2008 06:33:25 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:13486jhewittYahoo! pioneered the search engine business, creating a template for web media that persists today. It would be hard to imagine what the internet would have been like without the formative influence of Yahoo!. Yahoo: A Common Exclamation on the Web Frontier Yahoo! was incorporated in 1994, essentially at the dawn of the web as a consumer destinatio...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/blog/archive/2008/10/15/openoffice-3-0-released.aspxWed, 15 Oct 2008 05:17:45 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:11152williamLongtime Open Source Microsoft-Office-Wannabe OpenOffice has released an updated version. Now at 3.0, OpenOffice provides most of the functionality of more expensive Office application suites. It is said that 80% of Microsoft Word users actually only use 20% of the application. If that is the case, then there really is a market out there for very f...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/blog/archive/2008/09/19/cisco-reaches-agreement-to-buy-jabber.aspxFri, 19 Sep 2008 17:14:23 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:7751williamCisco Systems continues to build their collaboration offerings announcing an agreement to acquire privately held Jabber . Jabber produces enterprise sinstant messaging and presence applications, including a turnkey appliance to simplify Enterprise IM deployments. Along with recent acquisitions of WebEx and PostPath , this annoucement brings an impr...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/blog/archive/2008/08/27/cisco-buys-postpath-for-215m-us.aspxWed, 27 Aug 2008 16:33:48 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:5669williamThere are, or rather were, several products marketing themselves as Exchange Server replacements that really have become media darlings in the open source and Linux communities. These include Scalix , Zimbra , OpenXChange , PostPath , and even Axigen (I am doing a review of Axigen which will be posted in this channel in September). Well Cisco has j...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/blog/archive/2008/06/19/a-brief-history.aspxThu, 19 Jun 2008 06:56:59 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:1769williamIn support of ongoing articles, we are creating a set of reference articles for the Messaging and Collaboration space entitled "A Brief History of....". We will have several such articles covering protocols, trends, and applications. The first Brief History article summarized the life of Microsoft Outlook . As the number of these articles...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/blog/archive/2008/06/12/microsoft-outlook-2007-tips-articles.aspxThu, 12 Jun 2008 09:06:56 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:1601williamWe have started a series of Tips and Tricks for the most used client messaging application in business today - Microsoft Outlook . The first article for this series is called Outlook 2007 Tip #1 - New E-mail Account Configuration . Some tips may be simple while others more unique, but all will be helpful. We will expand this series to other messagi...http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/blog/archive/2008/05/29/welcome-to-the-messaging-and-collaboration-channel.aspxThu, 29 May 2008 22:36:18 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:1435williamCommunication options are both expanding and converging in the enterprise. SMS, instant messaging, unified communications, VoIP, Social Networking and of course good old e-mail are critical applications for many enterprises. In most cases, these options must work well together. This channel is dedicated to assembling varied and relevant content art...