On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Brad Thomson wrote: > > Run the hell away - NOW. We're migrating back to Exchange from > > InsightConnector because it's so useless - and going after our supplier for > > a refund on the basis of fitness. > > Unstable, useless, lack of support... it's gotta make you wonder why they've > bothered!
They're very Microsoftish - pretty slick marketing, but absolutely nothing of substance behind it. > > * HP OpenMail > > Yup used this before. I thought it was dead, it'll be interesting see what > Samsung have done with it, when the samsungcontact.com domain actually > resolves. I've only recently started looking at these sorts of things, we should keep in touch to share experiences. > > * Oracle CollaborationSuite (a new one which hypes as being pretty good). > > It does look very nice indeed. Will definately be evalutating this suite. The problem with all of them is that all you're doing is transplanting one shitty, proprietary system for another. Not a winner. We need iCal support in Evolution, a Windows version of Evolution, and a good iCal server for Linux (there may be one already, I haven't checked). > > Both of these work with Outlook. > > > > I'm also trying to get info on whether Evolution could be a possibility - > > eihter running direct under windows, or via an X server. > > Yep, this is something else we'll need to deal with, as we slowly rid the > organisation of Windows on the desktop. Windows, the OS, isn't too bad. It's an infrastructure thing. What we need to do is rid ourselves of the shitty proprietary protocols (like the ones that run Exchange). Those Halloween documents are soooo right. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
