On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:25:29 -0000, Randomthots
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The backend server stuff is important, but it doesn't necessarily need
to have the OOo name on it. But even for just one guy on one computer,
Outlook offers more functionality and ease-
of-use than Evolution, depending on what your needs are.
We already have rich clients that deal with this
problem with Kolab2/Kontact and Zimbra http://www.zimbra.com/
I don´t really know what you mean with more ease of use. Evolution is
almost the same as far as the UI is concern. Also Evolution is extendable,
which means it has plug-ins (E-plugs) so a plain evolution install is like
a firefox install.
Again, for example, Thunderbird has lots of plug-ins including calendar, I
guess working on the calendar extension might bring the same level of
integration than outlook.
For example I see that Evolution has RSS integrated, also thunderbird has
some weather reports, powerful anti-spam (much better than evolution),
skins, and all the group fo plug-ins that outlook simply lacks.
So saying that Outlook has more functionality is clearly a lie.
In linux world we have a lot of Personal information managers like Kontact
which includes Kmail which is even better email client, Kalendar, Kontact,
News (RSS), Journal (blog), Multy-sinc, also you got a higher level of
integration with Kalarm and other smaller programs. This is by far more
functional than outlook.
Again this is a sign that people are more tied to the application than the
solution and usually is just suitable to ignore them. Specially since well
we already have something available, why duplicate the efforts.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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