Hi!
Totally agree. It will take years for every users to chose replacement
for outlook, if something like outlook is not shipped with office suite
or at least recommended and supported by openoffice.org. It's easy to
estimate, how much time could take for every windows user visiting
Mozilla, Evolution, anything else pages, reading feature lists,
installing, configuring and removing all of these products (except one).
Most of potential openoffice.org users are not able to do it, because
lack of time, lingual barriers, lack of necessary computer knowladge
etc. I'm not sure, but I think that majority of openoffice.org users
comes from windows + microsoft office society and, if they decided for
some reasons to switch to openoffice.org, I assume they wants completely
replace their office applications at once and not to go through time
consuming decision making process about certain programs.
Sincerely
Andis
Dan, I think Mr Rieper here makes an important point, viz, that Microsoft
markets these various functions as a package, and thus people seeking
alternatives also tend to couple them together. This does not mean,
however,
that OOo should offer its own email alternative, which would be
supererogatory in the extreme, but rather that it should recommend - and
perhaps even provide relevant links to - such alternatives to, e g,
Outlook
as Thunderbird and/or Evolutions to new users. Remember that most people
have been brought up on a (carefully constructed) Margaret-Thatcher
view of
computer software : TINS. The task is to show them that this is not,
indeed,
the case....
Henri
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