Thanks Serge.  Having done job after job where Outlook was REQUIRED, and
unable to find an OSS solution to the groupware thing where Outlook was
supported, I think this needs to happen.  Now is the time.  Here is the
place.

The world will thank us later, hopefully before we have died ;-)

I laughed out loud when I saw the POI homepage.  I too subscribe to the
'if M$ pays me enough, I will stop doing this', so I think Andrew and I
will get along just fine.

I also wanted to note that James Pricket, the original author of the
icalendar code, has come back to Apache to continue the development of
it.  This will go a long way in helping to do the groupware thing.  

Jeff, if you are listening, welcome back :)

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:23 PM
> To: James Developers List
> Subject: Re: Introduction
> 
> 
> I love the idea.
> 
> I've always wanted the calendaring and groupware features, 
> but could never bring myself to install Exchange and deal 
> with the security issues.  I don't have lots of time now, but 
> I hope to continue to build on the mailet/SMTP part of code 
> and perhaps help with the IMAP and whatever else once it's 
> more stable.
> 
> Serge Knystautas
> Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites http://www.lokitech.com/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:00 PM
> Subject: Introduction
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A little introduction:  I am a die-hard java/xml/xslt geek, 
> with 10 years of OO experience, delphi being my language 
> prior to java.  I have always been handcuffed to the MS 
> platform, and have recently started to try and remove M$'s 
> hands from my wallet ;-)
> 
> I was just involved in a lively discussion on general@jakarta 
> about JAMES being a possible Exchange competitor.  Having 
> used JAMES over a year ago, I think that this is possible.  I 
> think that JAMES will be a winner regardless, but I would 
> like to step up and try to add collaboration abilities to 
> JAMES in order to be able to replace Exchange and have all 
> the functionality that Exchange does.
> 
> I am not a comitter here, although I am a committer on 
> commons and alexandria.  I have not looked at the JAMES code 
> completely, nor at the Avalon code completely.  I intend to 
> start doing this now.
> 
> I would like to start looking at the JAMES source and the 
> Avalon source, and then start contributing patches the the 
> JAMES code to start enabling groupware functionality.  What 
> do you guys think?
> 
> 
> If this is acceptable, I would like to start, and then also 
> create the necessary plugins to Outlook to make Outlook act 
> as it does, yet use JAMES on the backend.
> 
> What do you guys think?
> 
> Cheers,
> Scott Sanders
> 
> 
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