Spoon,
ximian is not free software !!
With Warm Regards
Tarun Upadhyay
Induslogic Inc.
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> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 5:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ilugd] Re: Office Depot Aids Monopoly{This is
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> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:29:16AM -0400, Tarun Upadhyay wrote:
> Tarun>I will bite (and change my email client) if somebody
> can show me
> Tarun>an email client that can talk to MS-Exchange (and yes,
> I do need
> Tarun>those shared folders and shared calendars !!) and please do not
> Tarun>get me started on why I need shared calendars
> integrated with my
> Tarun>email client. If you have never used, you will never
> understand it.
> Actully I do. Its the same reason that drives people to buy
> Microsoft office. The same reason people send you a MS word
> templates when you show intrest in writing in their magazines
> and neither your talking about the need to deprecate properietry
> file formats nor your telling them that alternative softwares
> exist has any effect on them. The editor uses MS word and that
> is an answer you cant do anything about.
>
> Tarun>Alternatively, show me a good open source alternative to
> Tarun>MS-Exchange that does that on server side - reliably. I
> know of an
> Tarun>obscure product from Samsung but other than that in my
> ten years
> Tarun>of managing systems (linux and windows included), I
> have not seen
> Tarun>any. Last year, I got desperate even asked the question on
> Tarun>slashdot But did not get any good replies, so I have
> little hopes from linux-delhi.
> look at ximian evolution. it does all the things you are
> cribbing about.
> Tarun>Hell, I will raise the bar and even offer $69 (my
> outlook license
> Tarun>fee) for anybody who can convince me that there exist an
> Tarun>alternative (open source) to outlook-exchange that is
> at least as
> Tarun>reliable and allows me to share my calendar and contact
> database
> Tarun>with my colleagues (with security that I can configure
> from my client and not from server).
> There is something called ximian connect. take a look.
>
> Tarun>I do not want to sound as if I like Microsoft or
> Outlook a lot. I
> Tarun>feel equally sad that there are no good open source
> alternatives
> Tarun>and do hope that one comes up. However, pretending that there
> Tarun>exist one when there isnt any will not get us anywhere
> (nor will
> Tarun>ridiculing people who use Outlook). There might be
> people for whom
> Tarun>open source is a principle in life and they are willing to live
> Tarun>with anything but would use only open source software. For me,
> Tarun>using open source tools is preferable and valuable but
> not at the cost of quality and productivity.
> The point is not about the lack of alternatives. Alternatives
> exist. there is always more then one way to do it.
>
> The problem lies with people. people do not want to
> change. People want to continue doing things just as they have
> been doing. a "new" however "better" solution is unacceptable.
>
> if linuxlingam would try making "me" change form mutt to kmail
> he has a might tough job on his hands.
>
> cheers!
> - --
> all the things we keep inside,
> are the things that really matter,
> the face puts on its best disguise,
> and all is well, until the heart betrays.
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