Installation on Ubuntu

[trebron]

Hi Everyone,

I just downloaded the trial for Scalix Enterprise version. All of my users want to use Outlook so I really need to have the MAPI connector. Anyway, while confirming my login information I was asked to choose which distro I use. I had two choices, SUSE and Red Hat. I really don't want to use either of these distros. I'd much prefer to use Ubuntu.

After downloading it appears that the enterprise version is a bunch of rpm's. Needless to say that's a bit of a problem. I've looked at the other threads that have instructions to get Scalix installed on Ubuntu, but they all mention the community version. Are there instructions for the Enterprise version or is my evaluation done before it even begins?

Thanks,

-John

[kanderson]

The technical difference between Community and Enterprise is a license key. You could quite easily dump that onto a *buntu machine, and have it work with no problems.

The official difference is that the community versions are not meant for corporate production environments. The code is released as a "best effort". If you encounter a serious problem, I believe Scalix will try to assist with resolution, but as it is an unsupported platform, there's a very real possibility that resolution would not be satisfactory to you. ("move to a supported platform" or "That fix will be included in release XYZ, due in a timeframe that you won't like" ).

Having said that, Xandros, much like *buntu is debian based, so you're probably not as "at risk" as if you tried to get it going on LFS or Gentoo something similarly "unique". Great distros, but not appropriate. I'll also mention that some of the comments on the forum lead me to believe that several of the developers run Scalix on *buntu as well. In fact, I'd place money on that.

So, you're likely OK to run it on *buntu. I'd advise not trying to stay bleeding edge, which will be difficult, Upgrades here are usually extremely tempting. Let someone else feel the pain.

I'll also say that the more documentation you provide, the easier it will be for everyone else to run Scalix on *buntu, which helps grow the user base. At some point, there MIGHT be enough users on *buntu to justify official support. In the mean time, you wouldn't be alone in gambling that your company would be just fine running Scalix on *buntu. I don't personally remember any issues with Scalix on *buntu once the admin had it running. Getting it running (or upgraded) is another story, but they're well documented on the forums here.

Kev.