On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:37:23 -0400, Jonathon Blake
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
b) You do realize that LAMP + OOo + Thunderbird + Firefox + the FLOSS
version of Outlook (which is no longer being developed, because
contrary to the claims of the people that say they will switch from
Outlook to FLOSS, when the rubber hits the rod, they people who claim
they will switch from Outlook, would rather stick with Outlook, than
change.) can _currently_ be deployed,
What? I didnt get that at all. Can you clear your point. From what I got,
it seems that some people use Outlook becasue they dont know or watn to
learn anything else. (Like the eudora people).
So is a priority to distinguish the need vs the attachment to a tool.
First we need to underline not the tools but the needs that a company has
or see in outlook. Is it the outlook as an email tool, or outlook as a
calendar, or is it the integration they get with Exchange and/or PDA's.
OOo or rather SO used to have an email tool a calendar and address book.
AFAIK this provides the so called PIM, this however was barely used by
people, it was one of the less used tools for a rather good reason.
However this is FLOSS so as long as there is one willing to code it, go
ahead, I myself have done the research identifiying the things you need
including the mail module on the IDL which includes the emails tools you
need.
The calendaring and journaling however isnt there and I am not sure if you
will need it. However this still seems very factual to develop, however
what I dont see as easy to develop is to integrate the exchange plug-in
and the MultiSync features that usually are available on Linux.
Also DBase or HSQL is not very reliable to take on large binary files
(documents) and will definetly bloat OOo since is a monolitic app so
bringing the mail db forward everytimte you launch OOo will make it
insanely slow.
I for one, use Opera which has M2, an email client (no calendar or
whatever). I have now about 6 years of email and launching opera is
usually a very efficient but also might be very slow process. Specially on
looking for long emails, And this db is very fast (sqlite I think).
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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