A Welsh council has introduced an open-source email system covering more than 150 schools with around 30,000 users.

Carmarthenshire county council moved to open source for the schools’ email system, migrating from a POP3 email system provided by its in-house IT development centre to an IMAP system, based on the open-source OpenLDAP protocol.

The use of open source, with no software licence fees, also offers the council a cost saving.

The Carmarthenshire email system now gives school children and teachers access to one of three different versions of the webmail client, tailored according to age. All users have access to the webmail client in both English and Welsh.

The system is built on a highly scalable hosting platform based on the Debian Linux distribution.

© 2007 Debian-news.net. Original article

TrackBack URI for this entry

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed