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
> > 
> > 
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