Comments on: Unison and Canonical’s Ubuntu Attack Microsoft Exchange http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/ What's Next In the IT Channel Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:53:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-87933 The VAR Guy Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:50:18 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/#comment-87933 Here's some <a href="http://www.crn.com/software/212500389?cid=ChannelWebBreakingNews" rel="nofollow">second-day perspective on Unison</a> from ChannelWeb. Here’s some second-day perspective on Unison from ChannelWeb.

]]> By: aikiwolfie http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-87418 aikiwolfie Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:09:14 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/#comment-87418 Two things spring to mind here. Cisco is it's self about to disrupt the whole corporate software platform with it's plans to turn routers into application servers using it's own bespoke version of Linux. At the moment they are offering bounties to software developers to provide software solutions to problems like say an answer to Microsoft Exchange. So Unison don't need to make a profit from their attempt directly. If Unison adapt their software to work with Ciscos new platform then they can claim the bounty. And given that Cisco are themselves attempting to disrupt Microsofts hold on the enterprise market they might even turn around and give Unison a helping hand. Two things spring to mind here. Cisco is it’s self about to disrupt the whole corporate software platform with it’s plans to turn routers into application servers using it’s own bespoke version of Linux. At the moment they are offering bounties to software developers to provide software solutions to problems like say an answer to Microsoft Exchange. So Unison don’t need to make a profit from their attempt directly.

If Unison adapt their software to work with Ciscos new platform then they can claim the bounty. And given that Cisco are themselves attempting to disrupt Microsofts hold on the enterprise market they might even turn around and give Unison a helping hand.

]]> By: crashsystems http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-87327 crashsystems Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:52:13 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/#comment-87327 I can confirm what commenter #1 said about the strange error message. I turned on TOR and went to the Unison site, and got the same message. If you go to the following link, you can see the text for yourself. It is a 403, which in http server response talk means the server says you don't have permission to access it. http://www.unison.com/errors/403.html My guess based upon the very little info we have is that it has something to do with the export of encryption software (which would make sense, as it is communication software, which should use encryption). I can confirm what commenter #1 said about the strange error message. I turned on TOR and went to the Unison site, and got the same message.

If you go to the following link, you can see the text for yourself. It is a 403, which in http server response talk means the server says you don’t have permission to access it.

http://www.unison.com/errors/403.html

My guess based upon the very little info we have is that it has something to do with the export of encryption software (which would make sense, as it is communication software, which should use encryption).

]]> By: Segedunum http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-87281 Segedunum Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:04:30 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/#comment-87281 Ubuntu and Canonical are full of grandstand announcements and statements, as many Linux desktop people and companies have been since the turn of the century, but they have no idea what's required, where they want to get to or how to get there even if they did. There are many groupware solutions, some quite good, in the open source world that could have been made into something extremely credible if Linux companies had picked them up and ran with them against Exchange. Novell was one I would have thought would have been desperate to get something widely used to halt Exchange's advance, but alas, they are content to see Groupwise be run into the ground. Unfortunately, a good open source groupware system means a good open source LDAP and single sign-on infrastructure, as well as good open source graphical tools to manage it which people now demand having seen Exchange. The latter is probably why Red Hat doesn't have anything in that area. As for the sponsor supported communications platform. Piffle. It's not unlike how many Linux desktop companies set up out of VC funding said they would support themselves. Nothing happened. Ubuntu and Canonical are full of grandstand announcements and statements, as many Linux desktop people and companies have been since the turn of the century, but they have no idea what’s required, where they want to get to or how to get there even if they did.

There are many groupware solutions, some quite good, in the open source world that could have been made into something extremely credible if Linux companies had picked them up and ran with them against Exchange. Novell was one I would have thought would have been desperate to get something widely used to halt Exchange’s advance, but alas, they are content to see Groupwise be run into the ground. Unfortunately, a good open source groupware system means a good open source LDAP and single sign-on infrastructure, as well as good open source graphical tools to manage it which people now demand having seen Exchange. The latter is probably why Red Hat doesn’t have anything in that area.

As for the sponsor supported communications platform. Piffle. It’s not unlike how many Linux desktop companies set up out of VC funding said they would support themselves. Nothing happened.

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-87262 The VAR Guy Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:15:53 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/#comment-87262 Jim: The VAR Guy will dig a little deeper to see what's behind the message. Jim: The VAR Guy will dig a little deeper to see what’s behind the message.

]]> By: Jim http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-87247 Jim Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:05:28 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/#comment-87247 Hey, I just tried the link and I get the following: Thank you for your interest in Unison. However, we have detected that you are located in one of the following countries or US states, where the use or sale of Unison software is prohibited: Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and any other jurisdiction to which US companies are restricted from exporting software. If you are not in one of the territories above or believe this page to be an error, please e-mail us at info@unison.com Hey, I just tried the link and I get the following:

Thank you for your interest in Unison. However, we have detected that you are located in one of the following countries or US states, where the use or sale of Unison software is prohibited:
Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and any other jurisdiction to which US companies are restricted from exporting software.

If you are not in one of the territories above or believe this page to be an error, please e-mail us at info@unison.com

]]> By: Rurik Bradbury http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/comment-page-1/#comment-87234 Rurik Bradbury Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:00:50 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/10/unison-and-canonicals-ubuntu-attack-microsoft-exchange/#comment-87234 Rurik Bradbury of Unison Technologies here. I can confirm that we have no plans to put ads in phone calls, or to make Unison advertising too obtrusive. The ads come in the form of banners or contextual ads inside the Unison Desktop client and the Unison Server Control Panel. Also, all ads will be B2B and appropriate for an office environment. A major goal of ours is to make sure that VARs are comfortable deploying Unison for their clients (instead of very expensive solutions like Exchange). So all ads will be non-intrusive and acceptable within a business environment. More info about the sponsor-supported version is now on the <a href="http://www.unison.com/what-is-unison/pricing.php?ref=overview" rel="nofollow">Unison site</a>. Rurik Bradbury of Unison Technologies here. I can confirm that we have no plans to put ads in phone calls, or to make Unison advertising too obtrusive. The ads come in the form of banners or contextual ads inside the Unison Desktop client and the Unison Server Control Panel. Also, all ads will be B2B and appropriate for an office environment.

A major goal of ours is to make sure that VARs are comfortable deploying Unison for their clients (instead of very expensive solutions like Exchange). So all ads will be non-intrusive and acceptable within a business environment.

More info about the sponsor-supported version is now on the Unison site.

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