Thanks to all who participated in the demos. We received a small amount of
feedback, which was appreciated.

Below you will find our recommendation that was presented to CIRT
Management on December 5. It outlines our preliminary decision and how we
will be moving forward with this project. If you have any comments or
suggestions, please email them back to the "calemail-l" list.

Findings:
--MeetingMaker, SunOne Messaging and Calendar, Oracle Collaboration Suite:
These products were unsatisfactory for either functional or technical
reasons, or both.
----MeetingMaker: A decent yet simple calendar scheme. Lacks scalability.
No email.
----SunOne: Not available for Linux yet. Calendar is still work-in-progress.
----Oracle: Calendar is our existing CT. Email is new, feature-poor and
very resource consumptive. In addition, since much of it is built on
Oracle's database product, the skills needed are that of a DBA, not a Unix
system administrator, and this complicates the intended roles for
individuals in our organization.

--Mirapoint and Stalker CommuniGate Pro:
These products would provide a very good email solution for the entire
campus. Both featured a robust and full-function webmail client and would
improve our current mail infrastructure. Each product's calendar solution,
however, is a work in progress. It could not replace CT, but could be used
by clients that do not need a full-featured calendar.

--Lotus Notes/Domino and Novell-Groupwise (GW):
These products were the best groupware candidates. Unfortunately,
implementing them would take a great deal of training for administrators
and would also require additional and differing hardware configurations.
These would require time to test and learn before implementing enterprise
wide. Also, GW is still not in a production version for Linux OS.

Decision:
--In the short term (see Implementation Plan below) we will use existing CT
licenses, and implement one of the two best candidates for email:
CommuniGate or Mirapoint.
--In the long term, we will re-evaluate GW, Notes, and other groupware
candidates, with an eye towards eventual migration or future integration
with the HSC.

Implementation Plan (for the short term plan)
--Have evaluation products (Mirapoint and CommuniGate) installed by January
12.
--4 weeks of evaluation (making available to any campus users who want to
be involved). Will include configuration, capacity, integration and
administration testing.
--Make decision by February 13.
--Implement by Mid-March (Spring Break?)

THE TEAM