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I’d love to know what Apple uses internally for stuff like email and calendaring.

I’m fairly sure they don’t use iCloud which is why some of that stuff is still less than desirable.

We can probably assume that Microsoft uses some kind of Exchange set up and Google will use a version of Gmail.

Whenever I meet with people from Apple, it’s over WebEx.

I heard a rumor that they use some Oracle enterprise groupware, which is presumably https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Beehive



They use Oracle mail servers for their corporate e-mail. Ironically, the direct descendant of the Sun Internet Mail Service software I wrestled with back in the early 2000s.


Any idea what Oracle’s mail server is called? Is it the thing I linked?

I don’t find it all that surprising:

- Sun/NeXT were doing stuff together before Apple and NeXT merged

- Lots of Java stuff at Apple immediately following the merger including a Cocoa-Java bridge and WebObjects is rewritten in Java

- Oracle/Sun stuff doesn’t need to be run on Windows

- Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison were good friends


Yeah: Oracle Communications Messaging Server (8.1 and above over the past 5 years).




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