On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 16:24, Scott Sanders wrote: > 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 ;-) >
+1 If not then it'll still be wicked fun. > 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. > :-p. One of my life long goals is to make Bill Gates at least $1,000,000 poorer. If that means I'm a mil richer all the better! (besides then I'd not work and devote all my time to my family and different java projects....Or adding java features to D -- looks like a cool language). > I also wanted to note that James Pricket, the original author of the > icalendar code, has come back to Apache to continue the development of > it. This will go a long way in helping to do the groupware thing. > > Jeff, if you are listening, welcome back :) > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:23 PM > > To: James Developers List > > Subject: Re: Introduction > > > > > > I love the idea. > > > > I've always wanted the calendaring and groupware features, > > but could never bring myself to install Exchange and deal > > with the security issues. I don't have lots of time now, but > > I hope to continue to build on the mailet/SMTP part of code > > and perhaps help with the IMAP and whatever else once it's > > more stable. > > > > Serge Knystautas > > Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites http://www.lokitech.com/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Scott Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:00 PM > > Subject: Introduction > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > A little introduction: I am a die-hard java/xml/xslt geek, > > with 10 years of OO experience, delphi being my language > > prior to java. I have always been handcuffed to the MS > > platform, and have recently started to try and remove M$'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 > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:james-dev-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For > > additional commands, > > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
