I've just finished reading through a discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Apache James as a potential groupware server.
Despite a promising consensus being seemingly reached, there has been no progress in the 2 months since the discussions appear to have concluded. At least, there's been nothing on the AJ dev lists and nothing on the websites or wikis of either AJ or OOogw. This saddens me because whilst reading the rather upbeat discussion on how AJ might evolve for v3, I was contemplating recommendations that my company hire a Java programmer to help so that we could (eventually) utilise an AJ/OOo setup. I can't advocate hiring somebody to *be* the initiative. Groupware is the biggest stumbling block with regards to OSS and the most underrated asset that Microsoft has - probably the reason they do not hype it too much is they do not want to see competitors. We and many others can't switch away from Exchange and there's no point in us switching to OOo if we can't move away from Outlook. Microsoft truly have a monopoly on groupware and it's the groupware that companies *need*. I am trying to draft up a proposal to switch my office slowly from NT4 to GNU/Linux and FreeBSD but there is no decent way for me to offer shared calendering and that kills any proposal stone dead. The only functioning non-web (I'm sorry, html interfaces will never cut it) iCalender server I could find is this and even it is (1) UW Calendar, and even then it's an incomplete implementation. (1) http://www.washington.edu/ucal/ I hope this situation changes. I implore somebody to get stuck into the AJ project and help shift the direction of v3, even if it's only editting the wiki and posting to the mail list. <Controversial opinion:> An OOogw/AJ collaboration will define both projects in the corporate world and give them presence. Otherwise, they'll just remain funky OSS niche software used by organisations and occasionally pedalled by OSS enthusiasts into an SME. - Charlie The future of webapps - www.xwt.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
