Group Where? Almost Anywhere

Companies looking for a way to leverage Microsoft Corp. Outlook—but not necessarily with Exchange—have a growing number of flexible groupware servers from which to choose.

eWEEK Labs evaluated four of the newest of these servers: Bynari Inc.'s Insight Server 4.2, CommuniGate Systems' CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Collaboration 4.2, Gordano Ltd.'s Gordano Messaging Suite 11 and Scalix Inc.'s Scalix Server 9.2.1. Through a plug-in, the servers connect Outlook users to features including group calendar and scheduling and shared folders.

We gave CommuniGate's CommuniGate Pro our eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice award not only for providing good groupware features for users but also for offering administrators a broadly extensible system that supports third-party tools and runs on a range of server hardware and operating systems.

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