Linux Replacements for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS)
As Linux becomes a solid contender in the small to medium-sized enterprise server market, several products have evolved to fill this niche. This document identifies Linux products that offer similar functionality to Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS).
Lotus Foundations
Formerly known as Nitix, Lotus Foundations automates essential system administrator tasks and tools. These include:
- Intelligent backup and recovery, including advanced disaster recovery
- Automatic network discovery and configuration
- Network security
- Intelligent VPN
- Email/office productivity tools
Highlights:
- Full featured software appliance
- Self-managing, self-healing system
- Email and advanced webmail
- Office productivity tools
- Network level firewall, antispam & antivirus protection
- Remote connectivity and VPN
- File and print services
- Central file management
- Automated disk backup
- Disaster recovery
http://kb.nitix.com/
http://open.nit.ca/
http://www.crn.com/software/190600048
http://www.linux.com/articles/113806
http://www.nitix.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitix
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=nitix
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2134402,00.asp
Scalix
Scalix Collaboration Platform is a robust, enterprise-class email and group calendaring solution that is the open alternative to Exchange. It integrates via open standards with your existing and future messaging clients, infrastructure, and applications, protecting your investments and giving you choice. It provides full-feature support of Outlook and is directory agnostic. The source code is available so the software can be ported to any platform, and can be extended, localized and customized. It is built on Linux, so you get 99.999% availability with clustering and failover. The Collaboration Platform forms the foundation for all the product editions, and is made up of the following components:
- Scalix Server
- Administration
- Messaging Services
- Localization Kit
http://www.scalix.com/enterprise/technology/platform.php
http://www.scalix.com/enterprise/
http://www.xandros.com/
Novell Open Workgroup Suite
Modernize your infrastructure and boost workforce productivity with your complete collaboration suite. It includes:
- Open Enterprise Server
- GroupWise
- ZENworks Suite
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
- OpenOffice.org
- Novell Teaming
http://www.novell.com/products/openworkgroupsuite/overview.html
http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb051606-story01.html
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8043025367.html
http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/oct/16/novell_delivers_desktop_to_server_software_suite_for_small_businesses
EmergeCore
EmergeCore Networks' award winning, "IT in a Box ®", All in One solution provides the small business with IT services and functionality at a low cost, required of the small business owner, home office user and the corporate telecommuter. Designed specifically for the needs of the small business, offering a suite of services and management tools, the IT-100 can be administered with minimal networking knowledge. Utilizing a graphical user interface, designed and engineered for ease of use, the IT-100 will revolutionize IT system use, help to reduce your overall cost of IT, and take you to new heights in data serving while addressing your small business needs. This box provides you with a wireless access point, VPN, switch, router, DNS server, E-mail server, WEB server, and many other features in an all in one solution. Contact today and make life easier for yourself tomorrow.
EmergeCore Networks develops high value, low cost, integrated IT solutions for small business. The "IT in a Box"®, integrates a 4port-switch, router, and application server in one, low cost, platform that is easy to use. The All in One solution gives the small business the ability to employ IT functions at a low cost.
http://www.emergecore.com/
http://www.emergecore.com/products/downloads/EmergCore_Carrier_SMB.pdf
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/34600.html
http://review.zdnet.com/networking-and-wi-fi/emergecore-it-100/4505-3243_16-30527136.html
http://linux.sys-con.com/read/44556.htm
http://www.networkworld.com/net.worker/reviews/2003/0707netlead.html
eGroupWare
eGroupWare is a free enterprise ready groupware software for your network. It enables you to manage contacts, appointments, todos and many more for your whole business. Applications include:
- Calendar (including support for scheduling of groups, resources and contacts)
- Contact-manager using an SQL database or LDAP
- integrated IMAP webmail client (FelaMiMail)
- Infolog, an application for tasks and notes
- Element based project manager highly integrated with all other apps
- Resources management (inventory) and booking tool integrated into eGroupWare calendar
- Filemanager
- SiteMgr: web based authoring system with fine granulated access control lists
- time-tracker application integrated with projectmanager
- tracking of bugs or other, integrated with projectmanager
- Wiki
- Knowledge base
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGroupWare
CentralPointe
CentralPointe is an Open Source solution that makes your IT simple, manageable, and affordable. Their mission is to provide the ultimate open source server solution that makes IT simple, manageable and affordable.
The platform that powers the CentralPointe Server has proven to be secure, reliable and scalable for any size business. The platform has secured over 100,000 networks in over 80 countries. The CentralPointe Server is built and packaged using Open Source Software and the Open Source Software development model. CentralPointe embraces open standards over proprietary protocols, breaking the ‘vendor lock-in’ paradigm to the ultimate benefit of our customers. CentralPointe is committed to the continuing evolution of the CentralPointe Server platform. With a minimum software end-of-life of 6 years, commercial users of the CentralPointe Server have the option of getting the most value on their initial investment or of upgrading to the most recent release in order to take advantage of new features.
CentralPointe offers a Network Operations Center (NOC) staffed 24/7, 365 days a year. CentralPointe administrators and developers have an almost immediate response to customer support inquiries via HelpDesk or phone to ensure the fastest time-to-resolution possible. CentralPointe’s services, in addition to the CentralPointe Server platform, provide the support you need along the way to ensure the security and reliability of your critical data and systems day or night.
- Power and Flexibility All In One
- Secure Messaging
- Network and Data Protection
- Enforcement of Internet Usage Policies
- Group Collaboration Suite
- Connectivity and High Availability
- Simplified Management and Monitoring
http://www.centralpointe.net/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5279/is_20080107/ai_n24311377
http://www.directpointe.com/
Zarafa
Zarafa is a software package that allows you to share e-mail and calendars via Outlook, on your PDA or through our Webaccess. The Zarafa Webaccess features the familiar Outlook 'Look & Feel' interface, and you can keep using the features in Outlook that have always allowed you to work efficiently; Opening your colleague's calendar or sending a meeting request is a piece of cake. Applications include:
- Addressbook
- Calendar
- Notes
- Tasks
- Personal Folders / Public Outlook Folders
- Permissions for every User and Folder configurable
- Meeting invitation and free/busy option
- Resources planning
- POP3
- IMAP
- iCalendar
- PDA synchronization via Z-push
- Out of office message
- Brick level backup
- Single sign-on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_%28software%29
http://download.zarafa.com/zarafa/en/Full%20Featurelist%20Zarafa%20R500%20EN%2001.pdf
exchange4linux
exchange4linux has been superceded by Zarafa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange4linux
http://www.n-h.com/Startseite.32.0.html?L=1
SME Server
SME Server is positioned to meet the needs of a wide range of users. Anyone from medium sized businesses looking for a platform to support their enterprise through home users wishing to host a web site will find SME Server the ideal solution to their needs. One of its strengths is that a fully functional server solution can be up and running in a short time. SME Server comes with a number of features already loaded and preconfigured for immediate use. Some of these features include:
- Industry leading web server capable of hosting multiple domains
- Full-featured email server with virus and spam filtering, webmail and secure access
- Industry standard firewall for intrusion protection
- Proxy server with content filtering capability and internet sharing
- File and printer serving capabilities for Linux and Windows(TM) workgroups and domains
- Easy server administration
- Runs most LAMP platform applications
- Available automatic updates for security and bug fixes
- Full binary compatability with the industry leading Linux server distribution
- Unique templating system that allow for clear and reversable configuration changes
http://www.smeserver.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SME_Server
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=smeserver
NetMAX
NetMAX 5.5 Network Server Software is a Red Hat compatible Enterprise Linux Server software distribution that supports PC/Mac/Unix file sharing, e-commerce, e-mail, web traffic, desktop applications, security, network gateways and wireless access. NetMAX 5.5 Network Server Software simplifies your network setup and reduces cost of administration with the easy-to-use browser-based configuration management. With NetMAX 5.5 Network Server Software, you can simplify your network, mail and storefront servers without sacrificing upgrades, features or security.
http://www.netmax.com/
http://www.netmax.com/products/product_home.html
http://www.serverwatch.com/sreviews/article.php/3069471
http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4977/1/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3824
VubuntuS
The Virtual Ubuntu Server Appliance aka VubuntuS, is an "all in one" Linux Server, which provides a highly configurable, robust, platform while ensuring a lite weight configuration, rich with features. It is unique in its kind, and is based on proven industry technology.
The Modules and Services selected have been Quality Assured in production environments over long periods of time & tweaked to high performance while ensuring the stability, security, & scalability that any audience demands.
VubuntuS is a classic Turn Key solution to the Small to Medium Business, while providing everything from a Trouble Ticket System to a Network AntiVirus Gateway.
The appliance was built using Ubuntu & Linux packages. The OS and its configuration is tweaked in its layout including partitioning. The Ubuntu packages selected were chosen because of there proven stability in production working environments. They are separately optimized in configuration to ensure compatibility. All custom packages were built on a separate replica of this machine and then moved across. No local compiling was done.
- Email with AntiSpam/AntiVirus: Postfix, MailScanner, ClamAV
- Proxy Filter: Squid, Dansguardian, ClamAV
- SSL VPN: ssl-explorer
- Web Server: Apache2
- Ticketing Server: Request-Tracker3.4
- Network and System Monitoring: nagios
- FireWall, FTP, DNS, DHCP, CVS, Samba, and much much more....
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/203
Bubba (eXcito)
All you want from a full-size PC you get from the mini-sized Bubba server, designed to fit your home better than an always running PC. With Bubba server you get a product in a small form factor but still fully featured:
- Downloader (HTTP, FTP, TORRENT)
- Itunes music streaming (Firefly/DAAP/Soundbridge)
- UPnP media streaming (Mediatomb)
- File server (HTTP, Samba, FTP, SCP)
- Web server (Apache)
- Email Server (Dovecot, Postfix)
- Fetchmail Server (Fetchmail)
- Printer Server (Cups)
- SSH connetion to internal Linux
http://excito.com
https://www.excito.com/bubba/about-bubba.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9262
http://forum.excito.net/
Webmin
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. Services include:
- Apache Webserver
- BIND DNS Server
- DHCP Server
- Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server
- Fetchmail Mail Retrieval
- Frox FTP Proxy
- Jabber IM Server
- MySQL Database Server
- Postfix Configuration
- PostgreSQL Database Server
- ProFTPD Server
- Procmail Mail Filter
- QMail Configuration
- SSH Server
- Samba Windows File Sharing
- Sendmail Configuration
- SpamAssassin Mail Filter
- Squid Analysis Report Generator
- Squid Proxy Server
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmin
http://doxfer.com/Webmin/WebHome
Other references:
http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/06/09/opsys_aadighfebb_g/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collaborative_software#Open_source_or_free_software
This document evolved out of a discussion on the TTLUG mailing list.
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