Sayang nga yung HP OpenMail. Why don't you let them try Netscape 4.7x
messenger, or Mozilla Mail. These two products have the features most end
users are looking for in a mail client like filtering, address book,
pop3/imap access, newsgroups etc.
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, eric pareja wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Mike Blancas wrote:
>
> > Evolution looks very much like Outlook (in terms of look and feel), I
> > don't know with regards to bugs =). Try imp and the other stuff provided
> > by the horde people. I think your co-workers are looking for outlook is
> > because they're accustomed to the program.
>
> The odd thing is, we haven't officially deployed Outlook, neither have we
> deployed MS Exchange (we don't have any NT servers at enterprise level).
> So they can hardly be accustomed to it. I suppose that what they are after
> is email with file attachment integration and scheduling (individual and
> group) features. I may have come from outside the third rock from the sun
> in a sense since I don't know what Outlook has been marketed as being able
> to do. I am inclined to believe that my colleagues read the ads and
> marketing material and swallow hook-line-and-sinker. Or perhaps they've
> tinkered with Outlook Express behind my back. :)
>
> I have already deployed IMP, but the other Horde project applications
> haven't really matured enough. Though I'm considering adopting the Horde
> framework for developing groupware type applications, I want to know what
> the office crowd is really clamoring for before I sink my teeth into
> writing for anything.
>
> The other strong candidate for web based groupware apps is phpgroupware.
> But like I just said, I really need to know what the horde is after. :)
>
> I've installed Evolution but it just wasn't ready when I tried it. Same
> with Balsa. I really have little need for a GUI email client since pine or
> mutt meets those needs adequately. Yun nga lang talaga, hindi para sa akin
> yung hinahanap ko.
>
> I visited the bookstores early this evening to see what titles there are
> about the topic and I noted that there seems to be a strong dependence
> between Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server (siyempre). Is this yet
> another case where you have an embrace-and-extend scenario shutting out
> competition. I understand that Outlook can work with IMAP or POP servers,
> but to make the most of it, you will have to deploy at least one MS
> Exchange server. The talk on other lists tells me that the licensing
> schedule for deploying this might be beyond the budget of money-strapped
> institutions or even small offices. Or am I mistaken?
>
> HP had dumped continuing development on their Exchange Server workalike
> and I recall Bruce Perens writing that it would have been difficult to
> open source that product because of all the licensing entanglements (this
> is the sense that I got) that have to be straightened out before it could
> even be released. The cost-benefit did not make any good business sense,
> so HP dropped the product.
>
> It will be a long way before Linux makes real inroads into the desktop of
> the average office. The applications have to be there before the end-user
> will take to it. In the meantime, I will continue to search for server
> based apps that help "tie" people together and meet their needs. Which is
> basically what this job is all about.
>
> Disclaimer: This post was written without thorough research and may
> contain erroneous facts. It is based primarily on the author's current
> state of craziness.
>
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