>Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:51:07 -0400
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Tom Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [Evolution] Redhat 7.1 Ximian Gnome 1.4 and Evolution with MS
>Exchange
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>On 02 May 2001 16:09:58 -0700, Brian Pomerantz wrote:
>> > IMAP will work as well. Though, it would be really swell if I could
>> > assign my sent and trash folders to an IMAP folder instead of a local
>> > folder. If I could do this and have real LDAP support, I would ditch
>> > Netscape Mail in a real hurry in favor of Evolution.
>>
>>What's not real about the LDAP support?
>With all due respect, from my perspective it's not real until I don't have
>to download sources and compile evo from scratch with LDAP support. I
>have read and in fact, participated in the philosophical discussions about
>LDAP support and licensing. I simply don't consider LDAP support to be a
>part of this product until it's a part of the binaries.
>
>I am not asking that OpenLDAP be distributed with your code. It's fine
>with me if your build simply considers it a dependency for LDAP to
>work. I love Linux, and evo shows great promise. I have simply come to
>the place in my life where I won't compile software from source. It's too
>complicated, takes too much time, and I can't tell you how many hours I've
>spent chasing dependencies and libraries.
>
>In my peer group, I'm considered a Linux zealot. I run Linux at home. My
>wife uses it exclusively. Were it not for MS Money's electronic
>transactions and a best friend who works for a game company, I probably
>would not run Windows at all at home.
>
>I have been using Linux since 1994. I have a degree in CS and am quite
>competent to compile software from source. I even used to write software,
>back in the day. I'm a rebel in my Fortune 100 company because I run
>Linux on my desktop. At this stage of my life, I just don't want to spend
>hours dinking around with editing makefiles and hoping for the best.
>
>I'm telling you this because I think that my perspective has validity in
>terms of target customers. If I, as an enterprise customer, want to
>consider the feasibility of replacing Outlook with evo, I need global
>address book access. This is available through LDAP. I need it available
>in the binaries. The number of potential customers who might download and
>futz around with evo's LDAP support is FAR greater if the LDAP support is
>built in.
>
>Your competition is MS. They make life EASY. Getting my wife to convert
>from Word to SOffice a few years ago was difficult because of typeface and
>clipart selection. It was VERY easy for my wife to connect to MS'
>website and find indexed downloadable clipart. Finding similar tools for
>Linux is challenging. You're going to have to make it easy to try your
>product if you're interested in product adoption. RC and XimianGnome are
>HUGE strides in making Linux for the masses, and I'm glad to see that.
>
>The next step is to make evo as simple as possible to snap in as a
>replacement for Outlook. This is complicated by the lack of group
>calendaring support. I'm looking forward to the day when that is possible
>from my Linux box. Barring the calendaring support, giving access to LDAP
>so that I can use the Exchange GAL would greatly assist in snapping evo in.
>
>Hope this helps. Thanks for reading my posting.
>
>Regards,
>Tom Cooper
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