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Originally Posted by Counsel (Likely this is obsolete and has been resolved, but I couldn't help but be troubled...)
The software looks like it would solve many problems at small firms.
However, if, in response to a question about how the software alters a system (and where it alters it), Zimbra responds:
I do not understand the thought process of Zimbra support here...
Please tell me you have a list of what the installation process does to a linux distribution that the package is released under.
I would hate to tell my clients, "Install it and find out..."
I would recommend, from a support-oriented paradigm, that ZIMBRA install the package and find out. It is, after all, your software... |
Thank you, Councel. It is good to know someone else out there is sensible.
Well, I went ahead (months ago) and installed Zimbra and hoped it would not irreparably destroy my system if I tried to uninstall it. Zimbra was slower than a pig, thank you, even with 1GB and only 2 users testing it. So, no thanks, time to uninstall. It took me weeks to undo all of the changes, and even then the system did not seem to work as it did before (which had been perfect before I installed Zimbra).
I ended up re-installing the entire Fedora system. Needless to say, I will never trust anything some cluck on a forum says when it comes to "just trust the system." Intuition told me I should not have trusted him, based on my years of admin and support experience. Shame on me.
Now. Listen up: If you had pulled this garbage in a trading company, or a nuclear plant, or anywhere else uptime and fallback capability are critical to an operation, you would have been fired on the spot. I realize you don't get paid to do this work, but please be more careful with such advice in the future.
Counsel is 100% correct. It is YOUR software, and therefore YOUR responsibility.