On Friday 06 April 2007 08:34, Chris Cioffi wrote: > 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.
Outlook is a bug-ridden Windows product that introduces more viruses to its users than any other email client. > 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? Lack of inclusion of a PIM in OO does not mean businesses don't have access to a PIM. If they're using Linux, they already have PIMs. > > 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. If they settle for Windows they already have. You haven't described anything in Outlook that Kontact doesn't already deliver. Why waste all that time reinventing the wheel? > 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. I'm not even sure it's "king of the hill" in Windows unless you mean more people are deluded enough to use it. Lotus SmartSuite and Lotus Notes provided that functionality to Windows and OS/2 users long ago, and did a better job sooner. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter." -InfoWorld Editor Nicholas Petreley --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
