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<p>On Montag, 2. Februar 2009, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:</p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> Hosting Kolab takes a decent amount of knowledge about the different </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> components and I believe it only makes sense if you can throw at least </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> a team of four to five people at it. You need short reaction times in </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> the area of commercial e-mail. So the initial costs are not that low </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> and so far there seems to be nobody willing to take the risk. To </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> finance a team of four to five employees you need to have quite a few </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> customers ;)</span></p>
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<p>You can probably do with less employees...</p>
<p>Kolab Server instances can be run by general administrators.</p>
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<p>The question of hosted is more a question of how many accounts someone would need and how the automatic processing of a few accounts is necessary.</p>
<p>Intevation (a part of the Kolab Konsortium) runs a few rented servers</p>
<p>for customers. It is relatively easy.</p>
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<p>Bernhard</p>
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