Srini, Thanks for this reply. My company has great interest in EVO's success and other open source software as well as SLED. We'll continue to pursue the use of Linux/EVO and hopefully offer constructive feedback on this and other forums.
For the time being, Microsoft is the standard by which all others will be judged (by end-users not necessarily IT folks). At this stage, I believe adoption is the key strategy and to achieve wider adoption, EVO has to work well with Exchange (MAPI). I applaud your efforts. Keep up the good work. Rob Cambra -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srinivasa Ragavan Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 6:29 AM To: Peter Van Lone Cc: evolution-list Subject: Re: [Evolution] Competing with Microsoft Hi Peter, 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. > > 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 ... > Exchange is something that we have much focus now. Specially the MAPI branch that we are working on should solve most of the issues and also support for Exchange 2007. But still it is premature to rely on. But really that is our answer as our long term solution. I understand that the current provider wasn't best written/maintained, but a lot of that has to do with the reverse engineered approach and unknown open protocol. Lets hope for the mapi provider to remove all of these issues. And also it should be much faster than the current one. -Srini. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
