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The Hula Project

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2005-02-15 11:03. Evolution

Nat wrote: Today we are thrilled to be launching Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server. Hula is a really exciting project already in part because we think that we can fill a hitherto-unclaimed spot in the stack of open source applications and in part because we've "primed the pump" by basing it on an existing, functioning codebase: a Novell product called NetMail. NetMail already runs millions of calendars and mailboxes. And so we're starting off with the mundane work of building a functioning server done, leaving us to focus on creating interesting new functionality.

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Nope

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-02-17 08:21.

"Do you really think Hula is the first server containing this functionality? Come on - you can already use plenty of open source servers for these tasks!"

No. The other alternatives (some of which are mentioned here) all seem far too heavyweight for what I need - in addition to email, webmail and calendaring they load up on a million other types of functionality I have no desire to eiter use or administer. They all also tend to be difficult to install, with many dependencies; dificult to tweak without enduring a pretty high learning curve, and they tend to be pretty specific on wht things they can work with (need an SQL database, and exactly a certain database and no other and so on).

Will Hula be the answer, or will it too fall on some of these points? I don't know - but I do know that the existing alternatives do fall, and hope springs ever eternal.

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