Kolab Now VS Apache OpenOffice

Another compromise between self hosting and using "big tech" email providers is to use smaller email providers. I have been using https://kolabnow.com/ for a five years or so and am a happy customer. Of course it's more expensive, has less bells and whistles, etc, but I'm glad I don't have to participate in the surveillance capitalism machine of big email providers. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

BTW: KolabNow is at https://kolabnow.com . I have no connection to them aside from being a customer for many years. Source: over 2 years ago

Likewise, I expected kolab to appear in TFA's list of evaluated options, as I knew it has been around for a while and covered most (all?) of the author's requirements. IIRC it was a key element in Munich's initial 'let's move to GNU/Linux' project, so I imagined it had received a LOT of updates for those few years. The repo [0] looks like it's still getting lots of love. The commercial entity doing much of the... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

These people need openoffice.org lol. Most of the tools that micro$oft makes are easily found in open source elsewhere, if one just looks around a bit. Source: about 1 year ago

Apache Open Office - it does everything Microsoft Office does but it's free. Just go to openoffice.org. Source: about 1 year ago

For those who want to write it, read it, and delete it at any time, there is an easy, free alternative: OpenOffice. Source: over 1 year ago

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Lets roll back 20 years to 2002. We looked after PC's running 2000 and XP. A couple of servers, Exchange 5.5/2000, maybe venturing onto a server for File storage and a few app servers. Nothing really broke all that often (even though back then we thought it did). We would upgrade some PC's, deal with printer driver issues, Installed Roxio countless number of times and if we had time looked at implementing a... Source: over 1 year ago