On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:33, Ryan Leathers wrote: > Getting a bit off topic, but I have used the SuSE OpenExchange product > mentioned and can confirm that it works great for Outlook users except > for calendar sharing / meeting invitations. It has its own web based > stuff which works great, but Outlook users really just want it to all > happen in Outlook. > > Which do you think will happen first: > A) A new Outlook upgrade will handle calendaring using an open standard > B) End users will lose interest in calendaring stuff > C) SuSE or somebody else will figure out how to make this work > D) On the coat tails of their SFU announcement Microsoft will port all > applications to Linux to ease the integration troubles of customers >
I opt for C) and I think Ximian/Novell will be the ones to bring it to market. Ximian has already de-bugged the mapi code used by Exchange so they are a step ahead of the pack. Jon -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
