On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:07:49 -0000, Sam Stainsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:24:27 -0500, William Baric wrote:
I had one of them who was willing to switch to OpenOffice. They didn't
have too much money and they were willing to put up with OpenOffice's
Word, Excel and PowerPoint import/export filter (thanks to MS Viewers).
They were also willing to buy Antidote licence (a french grammar checker
that integrate with OpenOffice). But in the end, I had to forget about
this project because of outlook. The director had a Palm and he wanted
calendar sharing. This meant that They had to buy Outlook.
You can buy outlook for 100 instead of MSO for 300+ dls, this means you
save 200 per desktop.
I also work for an organisation that is unwilling to move away from
Microsoft Office because they feel that they need the calendaring and
meeting arrangement facilities of Outlook, on Windows. Many of them
frequently work offline, so web-based solutions are not applicable. I'm
pinning my hopes on Evolution for Windows, but the project seems to be
moving very slowly (understandably, as it is a complex project with many
libraries to port).
I think that people that argue that there is no reason to develop a mail
client as part of OpenOffice because there are other mail client
applications available are misguided for two reasons:
Make sure you are asking for an email client Outlook is not just an email
client and if OOo end up having an email client you might be criying that
you mean a whole PIM-app.
1. The other mail clients don't have the needed functionality on the
commonest desktop platform in the world (please note I'm a Linux user
myself - I don't endorse Microsoft Windows - far from it - but we have to
face the reality that it is out there and this is unlikely to change for
some time).
2. This idea that OpenOffice only concentrates on applications that are
not available from other packages is completely bogus. Look at OpenOffice
Draw for example and compare it to packages like Inkscape.
That's because OOo is not a clone to MSO
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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