On 01/02/2011 10:49 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2011-01-01 1:43 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >> Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent >> program such as outlook. > > Well, I disagree, but there is no way to prove one of us is right, so... > >> There are one of three ways it can be done. >> >> 1) fork something like evolution which has all that done and integrate it >> into the LO suite > > Evolution is extremely buggy, *especially* on Windows, but yes, even on > *nix... Yes, there are many people who run it without problems, but > there are far more who complain of constant crashes and bugs, even on > the stablest of systems (otherwise)... > >> 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena. > > Thunderbird+Lightning would be the best other choice here...not perfect > by any stretch, but the only viable FLOSS alternative on Windows at the > moment, at least that I am aware of... > >> the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download size, which >> would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth. > > Thunderbird+Lightning is not that big... >
Might be worth considering collaborating with Zimbra: http://www.zimbra.com/ I found this interesting: <http://www.zimbra.com/forums/developers/37811-openoffice-org-integration-google-docs-zoho.html> The guy was using "SuSE build of OOo 3.2". I generally use SeaMonkey, but I've been experimenting with Zimbra Desktop lately & it seems to be an interesting alternative w/calendar, Document, Briefcase, etc. And it's open source: http://www.zimbra.com/about/ albeit with their own ZPL: http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/os-downloads.html A tie-in with LibO & Zimbra would be about as close as MS Outlook/Office (I'm not referring to Outlook Express) with a multiplatform environment. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
