camerond01 wrote:Maybe Brian Joseph should have said "now we see many Scalix customers checking non-Scalix alternatives because they do not trust Scalix anymore".
Still, better the devil you know than the one you don't. I've placed some faith in Scalix and Xandros by renewing my subscription for another year, and I'm hoping with some gentle prodding we can get some action out of one of them. After that year has elapsed is another story...
The trouble is that many many many people have been gently prodding and more heavily prodding for about a year now and we still have no idea what will happen with Scalix, where it's going to go etc.
I too would love to see 11.5 come in Q1 this year and support Outlook 2010 and fix the majority of outstanding bugs. I've got quite a lot of sites using Scalix and migrating all of them to something else would be a huge task. And the thing that you cant go past is this.....
Ultimately its the Users who will drive the decision about which mail server will be necessary. Why? because everyone wants to use Outlook. No one has ever come up with another mail client to rival Outlook and do everything that it does. Consider probably 90% of the world uses Outlook for Email. And everyone want's their phone to sync with Outlook. And everyone wants to collaborate with other users in Outlook. Thus you need a mail server which supports Outlook and all these features. You cant get older versions of Outlook anymore, 2010 is the only thing you can get. That's just how it is. It does have some nice new features. So every new pc bought comes with Outlook 2010 and Scalix end users find they lose what functionality they had before and they start to complain and admins get stuck in the middle. Currently, it would appear that the only option is to go to another product. The silence is deafening from Xandros/Scalix.
If Scalix cannot find a way to at least support Outlook 2010 in the next couple of months (Outlook 2010 was rtm on 15th April 2010 and already many other mail collaboration servers support it) then they have really missed the boat and will likely see a large number of customers go elsewhere.
C'mon Xandros/Scalix, give the community some idea of what is happening......