On Friday April 06 2007 10:34 am, Chris Cioffi wrote:
> On 4/6/07, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nekelle Celestine wrote:
> > > Good Day Sir/Madam
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > When will Open Office create a Microsoft Outlook equivalent?
> > > I'm really excited about that.
> >
> > Given that Outlook is an inferior mail client, compared to the
> > alternatives, why would you want an equivalent? You may want to
> > try Thunderbird, which can be obtained from www.mozilla.com .
>
> Outlook is far more than just email. The Outlook/Exchange
> combination is something I haven't seen really replicated yet. The
> combination of Email, Calendar, Todo and Journal, even if
> individually lacking, combine into a very powerful tool.
> Especially the ability to *easily* schedule meeting and assign
> tasks.
>
> So, given that Thunderbird is an inferior tool for serious business
> why would you promote it? And, given the glaring omission of a PIM
> in OOo right now, why should a business choose it?
>
> Seriously, in a business setting users expect a full featured,
> integrated PIM like Outlook/Exchange. Yeah, Outlook sucks for
> email and it's not even close to the best for anything else it
> does, but it's a single tool and when integrated with Exchange it
> really does set a very high bar for overall functionality. Not
> everyone in an organization needs it, but guess what? The folks
> making the decisions do! And they aren't going to settle for a
> second rate solution.
>
> Chris
>
> PS: Yes, I know that not all midsize+ organizations use
> Outlook/Exhange and that there are alternatives if you cobble
> together enough different tools. The fact remains that
> Outlook/Exchange is currently king of the hill in that space, and
> calling it just an email system ignores a significant part of it's
> value proposition.
This I do not understand the problem. I use Linux with a KDE
desktop. Kontact has the things you just mentioned and some other
things as well in a PIM package (RSS and weather for two examples).
And yes, I also have my own email server that comes as part of the
Linux package.
Dan
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