On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:16 -0600, Peter Van Lone wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 2:07 PM, Rob Cambra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People sitting at desks in real companies want and demand collaboration > > tools such as Exchange, Lotus Domino, GroupWize, etc. Evo better be the > > client side equivalent for open source and be rock solid in those > > environments or it goes nowhere. What's the point if it's just for home > > users and enthusiasts? > > exactly right. >
But alienating the "home users and enthusiasts" isn't going to do you any good. The _innovation_ for much of open source software comes from exactly those people - the driver for corporate users is to mimic Microsoft, which I can't believe is good for the future development of Linux. > EVO appears to be fine for individual users ... but in a > corp/groupware environment, it's (poor) support of Exchange makes it a > non-starter. I know that many posters to this list express the > sentiment that they "resent the time EVO developers have to spend on > Exchange support". Well, I guess it comes down to whether or not you > want linux in general and EVO in particular to have a shot a real > marketshare leadership ... I work in a (semi-) corporate environment - and Evo is a perfectly stable, capable mail client. It has things missing that would make life easier, but that doesn't include Exchange support - we don't use Exchange - and, although it may seem strange to some people, not all corporate environments do. It saddens me to see the Evo developers chasing Microsoft's tail all the time - it is exactly the scenario that Microsoft want: the perception that they are the leader and everyone has to follow them. I wish there was some easier way into Exchange and I sincerely home that the libmapi approach is going to provide it - although my cynicism tells me that the mapi protocol will change every few months in order to break everything other than MS products . At least once that is sorted out, the Evo developers can concentrate on other things. P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
