On 19/07/2008, at 3:19 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Michael Adams wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:52:42 +0200
KAMI wrote:
Kurt Semler írta:
For the people wanting an eMail client with OpenOffice.org, what
about bundling Evolution with the office suite?
http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/
For record, StarOffice 5.2 has a very capable e-mail client and
scheduler:
http://www.malaysiaindustry.com.my/biz_resources/freeSoftware/
staroffice/StarOffice%20Mails%20&%20Discussion.php
http://www.malaysiaindustry.com.my/biz_resources/freeSoftware/
staroffice/StarOffice%20Schedule.php
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4433
I don't know why it was dropped, but what about to bring it back? I
think it would be nice a integrated e-mail and collaboration
software.
Sun has put programmers into the Thunderbird and Lightning projects.
This should increase connectivity between the OO.o and Mozilla
projects
over time even though the programming models differ.
--
Michael
However, that does not address either of the two questions;
1. Why was Star Office 5.2 "dropped"?
and,
2. Why not revive Star Office 5.2?
Surely, Sun could consider this?
I am aware of a later version of Star Office; Star Office 6.0, but
that version had much of the functionality of Star Office 5.2
removed, and was merely a commercial version of Open Office..
Unfortunately, from memory, it was a result of Sun taking over Star
Software, or whatever the company that produced Star Office was
named, that Star Office 5.2, and its functionality, was dumped.
Perhaps, if a representative of Sun is subscribed to this mailing
list, that person (or, if applicable, those people) could answer
the two questions above.
I am not a representative of Sun, but I can give the perspective of a
user of 5.2 and all the newer versions of Star Office and
OpenOffice.org.
1. I don't believe 5.2 was "dropped" as you put it. This is where the
takeover happened, from memory, and they could not open source the
whole product as it was due to it containing 3rd party code included
in the product. Part of the process of open sourcing this product was
for Sun to carefully go through the (many, many) lines of code and
make sure everything they released was their own intellectual
property. This may have been one reason for some of the features to
go missing.
2. To revive Star Office 5.2 is not going to achieve anything other
than to lose all the new features gained since open sourcing. If you
want to be able to purchase an office suite that has email, calendar
and all the other parts included, then MS Office is the most popular
choice. However, the purpose of OpenOffice.org was to offer an open
source product for the desktop office market. There were already many
email clients available, so rather than duplicating effort, they
dropped certain features (mail, browser, desktop etc), and made it
more modular in design. This enabled the developers to start looking
at getting this core set developing faster and better for the new
users. The newer developments started by making certain features such
as the database, multimedia etc, more modular again so that it was
not specific to any platform, but could work on different OS's.
Put simply, it is far easier, both in terms of manpower and in lines
of coding, to maintain an interface between popular mailers such as
Mozilla Thunderbird than to devise and manage a new one in the
OpenOffice.org code. At least that is the way I see it. :)
Regards
Jonathon
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Jonathon Coombes
OOo Knowledgebase:- http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au
http://www.training4linux.com
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