On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:19:00 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > As others have mentioned, Mozilla or Thunderbird will handle mail and > addressbook functions, calendaring is under development. Evolution will > handle maiol, address book and calendaring. > > You can read more about or download Mozilla or Evolution from these two > addresses: > http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html > http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ > > http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html
I find calendaring frustratingly problematic with current OSS applications: Unfortunately,Mozilla and Sunbird don't have a complete, user-friendly feature set (e.g. when it comes to setting up invitations/appointments by email). Also, Sunbird is not quite stable enough for widespread use (although I use it for successfully as a simple local calendar). Evolution has a much better feature set, and is not too hard for Outlook refugees to change over to. The problem here is that it hasn't been ported to Windows. Again, not a problem for me, but a problem for larger organisations that I work for who are trying to incrementally move to open source, who are not yet ready to adopt desktop Linux. Does anyone know if there has been any progress porting Evolution to Windows. It is desperately needed. If that's not going to happen, then I fully support the idea of an Outlook replacement as a component of OpenOffice. Cheers, Sam. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
