I'm looking for outlook alternative for ooo since PIM was removed from
first openoffice version. The only replacement which is functionlly
comparable with outlook and in contrast to Thunderbird don't consume
100-200 MB of RAM, at least under linux, is Ximian Evolution. There are
several windows porting projects. One of them released some kind of
alpha version, which can be downloaded from gnome project ftp server
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/evolution-win32). You can read more in
developer list.
There are huge amount of opensource and commercial web based PIM
programs, but if you like to have everything on your desktop and don't
want to walk around with cable or anthena, than Thunderbird + plugged
Calendar application is much, much better choice. Take in account, that
old Calendar extension is not in development anymore, so the more mature
mroject is stand alone calendar Sunbird. Thunderbird has also Lightning
calendaring extension project in development stage
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/), which promises to
compete with outlook - functions like create appointment from message,
attach message or file to appointment etc. When you start to use
extensions heavily, than you understand benefilts from having Thunderbird.
Andis
Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:33 am, graeme murray wrote:
Is there a MS Outlook lookalike?
I certainly hope not.
But what operating sytem to you want to use it on.
Thunderbird which is somewhat better will work on most OS.
If you have a MS OS and you like Outlook (Ugh) then continue to
use it. If you want some thing different for an MS OS you could
choose Thunderbird, Mozilla, Pegasus, Eudora . . .
If you want something to run on a unix like system (BSD, Linux
etc) then you have many to choose from -- Thunderbird, Mozilla,
Xfmail, Kmail, Evolution . . . all of which operate under X
windows. Thunderbird has become fairly popular and is better
than Outlook but it is not a clear leader in features or
perfomance.
But it is difficult to find something else with all the nasty
habits of MS Outlook. Of course this is my personal view of
Outlook but there seem to be a lot of people with similar
opinions; and there are some people out there that actually like
it.
Malcolm
Graeme Murray
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