Hello Eric,
eric pareja wrote:
>
> Okay... I am clueless about what Outlook is and why a lot of our personnel
> -want- it. What is it and what's so great about it?
M$ well known ease of (mis)use paradigm.
> And what free software
> replacements are there for it in Windows or Linux? What back-end servers?
>
you got it right - staroffice/openoffice. oh, I didn't know it needed a
back-end server.
> If my suspicions are correct, it is an email and groupware(?) scheduling
> app?
>
yup, and it's responsible for all the macro viruses being automagically
sent by winblows units to people like us.
last sunday, my personnel manager's outlook sent me a nice .exe with a
mime type of gif. guess what uvscan told me the .exe wanted to do?
anyway, just for fun, I watched the file go crazy trying to find
IE/outlook/IIS/etc while it ran under wine.
> Does StarOffice (EOL-ed) provide these functionalities adequately to act
> as replacement?
maybe - but I prefer netscape communicator. it's at least, a LOT faster
than staroffice
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