Sun's Comms Suite 7 was released recently. The Convergence web mail, calendar, IM tool is still great and sleek. However, we long wished Sun had the foresight to actually make Convergence a separate product and perhaps even make it open source. There is not a good web application that can do all three of these services. This would've been a great new addition to the open source community.
By separate product, we mean that it be allowed to be installed as a standalone product, that doesn't, by default, tie into the regular Sun Messaging or Calendar products. Making it open source would mean greater adoption. People can use it with their generic IMAP (e.g. Dovecot) or CalDAV servers. Sun could then bundle it as a commercial product, as part of the comms suite, with enterprise features like index searching that work specifically with the usual Sun comms products.
For now, we'll stick with RoundCube for our web mail interface (which also has a editable LDAP feature which fits in quite nicely with our LDAPBook service). In the future, we may deploy a full communications platform based on Comms Suite.
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