Chad Smith wrote:
Article entitled "E-mail 'crucial' to future of desktop Linux"
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5978465.html?tag=nl.e589
E-mail will be the most significant factor governing the uptake of Linux on
the desktop, according to a new study.
The Desktop Linux Client Survey 2005, released this week by the Open
Source Development
Labs<http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osdl.org%2F&siteId=22&oId=2100-9590-5978465&ontId=9590&lop=nl.ex>,
found that the lack of a powerful e-mail application could hinder the
adoption of Linux on the desktop.
It mentions Evolution as the top contender, and Lightning (a planned
combination of Thunderbird and Sunbird - the Mozilla email client and
calendar respectively) as a distant second. A OOo-based email client/PIM
could fill his void.
What do you all think?
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- Chad Smith
http://www.gimpshop.net/
Because everyone loves free software!
I sort of agree with you... in that I don't really care how it happens
or who does it, as long as the functionality matches Outlook.
I think it's been talked to death on this forum and a lot of the *nix
crowd simply doesn't get it. How you can trash-talk a program like
Outlook without knowing what it does is beyond me. But the suggestion
that you can simply replace Outlook with Thunderbird is ludicrous.
Outlook Express, sure. But Outlook, no way.
The other thing that I think is that there isn't a real clear vision for
OOo post-2.0. On the one hand, you have the "disruptive technology"
paradigm that Mr. Enfeldt has been touting lo these many months (years).
You know, the whole Clay Christiansen thing, where Linux, OOo, and
open-source in general is supposed to erode the market leader's position
for the bottom. Linux, OOo, etc. is supposed to be "good enough" and it
wasn't important now to have all the bells and whistles provided by the
market leader.
But now we have this whole ODF thing. THAT'S being marketed to the
upper-tier (government and enterprise) as a means to ensure
inter-operability, data archival, and a whole lot of other things that
don't mean as much to the lower and middle tier customers. Problem is,
we don't have the upper tier applications to utilize the format. OOo 2.0
is good... very good, but it doesn't yet meet the functionality of my 5
year old copy of MSO 2000, much less the current product offerings.
So what's the strategy? Is there one?
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Rod
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