Dave Rosselle wrote:
Kevin:
WOW! Embarrassed to say that I just learned a LOT about cool features in
Outlook from your msg.!
Thx,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: McLauchlan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 1:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [users] Newbie!
Robert (Newbie) asked about an Outlook replacement for use with OOo, and
various list members suggested SeaMonkey or Thunderbird with the
Lightning calendar plug-in.
What do multiple users do to call meetings, reserve rooms and resources,
and have meetings inserted into each others' calendars?
The boss would want to be able to "forcibly" insert meeting
reservations/notifications into underling's calendars, while other folks
would like to be able to provisionally insert them (if the time is
currently unallocated in the other party's calendar). One of the
handiest features of the Outlook calendar functions is that simply
clicking "Accept" causes both a return acceptance to be sent, AND the
block of time to be set aside in one's own calendar. As well, the
Outlook shared calendar functions allow other people to see whether
invitees are already booked for a given timeslot, so they can just
quickly move a proposed meeting around their call-a-meeting calendar
until they hit a timeslot where all the important participants are
otherwise unbooked. In a busy company, negotiating meeting acceptances
by return-e-mail responses can be extremely frustrating, since people
tend to take hours to reply and meeting slots get rapidly booked.
What do OOo adopters do when they work in a MS environment where
everybody else (hundreds or thousands in the company) use MS Office and
Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint for everything?
Are there any "captive" employees on this list who are actually doing
that?
Or is everybody who uses OOo, along with an open-source e-mail and
calendar solution in an office environment working as a
contractor/consultant.
How about Evolution?
Anyone using that - in an otherwise MS environment - successfully? I
have not used Evo since about 1999, so I'm a little out-of-touch.
- Kevin
I use Linux in a Windows centric corp. I do this because the tools I
use are included with Linux and I would have to purchase them for Windows.
We run Exchange server (no POP or IMAP) and I was using Evolution but it
was way way to slow and it was interfering with productivity. I found a
way to use Thunderbird for my email which saves me hours (actual times)
daily in productivity. I fought with Evolution for almost a year before
finding a way to get back to Thunderbird. I also hate the Outlook
interface.
I don't use the Corporate Calender because many that I work with don't
use it either. It is a pain.
Sharepoint is just a major nightmare. I keep getting error messages and
the administrators just tell me to install Internet Explorer. Not an
option. There are some around here that are really scared of the move
to SharePoint as we have already run into the issue of not being able to
open and read files that are in proprietary formats. The real workers
are moving all file handling to open file formats to ensure
accessibility across users and platforms, both today and in the future.
It is frustrating to see work that was done five years ago that cost a
million dollars not to be accessible.
For documents, OOo is a life saver. I have helped so many people
recover their Word crashed documents that Word would refuse to open. My
boss thinks it is great. Many use OOo on Windows machines as well as
Word because it has tools and features that work better than Word,
especially in the Styles area. More consistent across computers and OS's.
Actually. Many here are moving to LaTeX due to the formatting working
exactly as they need. Some still use WordPerfect as the prefer the
formatting style of WordPerfect and won't use OOo until there is a
Reveal Codes feature in it.
--
Robin Laing
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