Hi,

> -          A Project programm intergrated

A project has been started on this.

> -          A mailclient intergrated with calander, a taskscheduler and
> adressbook 

No we don't. Mozilla is doing sufficient work in that area and we don't
 need to re-invent the wheel. All we need to do is integrate with
Mozilla products wherever possible.

> -          A Flowchart Program intergrated

Draw has that functionality. Could be extended, though.

> -          A Publisher Program intergrated

Publisher? As far as i understood it so far, Publisher is a DTP
application. It is thereby out of focus of an Office Suite and Scribus
should be your preferred alternative. However, I'd be happy to see
Writer leave the Word processor arena behind and go more into a DTP
direction.

> -          A webbased Program like Frontpage intergrated.

Again, out of scope for an Office Suite. Plus again, a solution (NVU)
comes from Mozilla.

> I think with this option we are already in the right direction.This are
> things I miss in open office at the moment.I hope mij comment helps.

Go look at what's out there. OOo should only integrate these things
where integration makes a lot of sense. In all other cases, external
projects provide your needs.

With that in mind, I'd say:

Project Planning -> go with Planner or GanttProject. Where is the
benefit of having it integrated into OOo?

Flowchart Drawing -> Yes, definately something that makes sense to
integrate. Draw's flowchart drawing should be improved and integration
should be enhanced...like i.e. have a basic flowchart generated
automatically from a structured writer document and stuff like that.
Look into Draw's current offers in that area and alternatively, have a
look at Dia of GNOME.

MindMapping -> You didn't mention that, but it is in my opinion the
number one makes-sense-application to implement in OOo. Tight
integration between writer, calc, impress and a mindmapping application
would be a killer. Plus MindMapping could be implemented as a special
"Mode" in Draw, which would leave a Mindmap that would be hand-editable
afterwards. For now, FreeMind is the way to go.

eMailing, Web-Authoring, Calendaring -> Where is the sense in an Office
Suite integrating that functionality? Where is the integration between
Outlook and Word or Excel? Having this in an office suite is total
nonsense. Mozilla cares for that and that's fine. Integrating
Calendaring and Project Planning would make a lot of sense, though.
However, look at Thunderbird and Sunbird. Also, Lightning will be the
next gen calendaring extension for Thunderbird making it even with Outlook.

Desktop Publishing -> Yes, integration would make sense, but you really
don't need a text processor and a desktop publisher. Rather turn your
text processor into a desktop publisher, i'd say. For the time being, go
with Scribus.

André.

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