[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, I wonder why people want OOo to have an intergrated
email client? The volunteer programmers have enough to do
making OOo the best Office Suite out there.
Completely agreed. It is way more important to have properly working
Charts, bibliography handling and stuff that is needed in creating
documents than one more integrated unrelated functionality. The swiss army
knife if good when you need something small that can do a lot of things at
an acceptable level. However, a good screwdriver is better than the
screwdriver on the swiss army knife and so is a hammer, a saw, a knife, a
pair of scissors and so on.
I'd rather have a document editor that can not browse the web, read my
email and control the washing machine in my laundry but can do everything
I can ever dream of doing with a document. I'll be glad to use a mail
program to read my mail, a browser to browse the net and the Glaundry
package to control my washing machine.
I know that it's ancient history, but in the early 70's the UNIX mantra
was: a tool should do only one thing but do that one thing well. The idea
being that it results in stability, maintainability, reliability.
Zoltan
I was not going to post on this thread again - but...so much for good
intentions.
First - you talk as if OpenOffice.org where a word processor. That is
but one function of the package - it is an Office suite and for many of
us that means it should be capable of being the base platform for an
office environment - a commercial enterprise in other words - all the
aspects thereof, not just document production. Email is an integral part
of such an enterprise these days. There is a reason MicroSoft dominates
this market and it is not some underhanded conspiracy theory that so
many seem to want to chalk it up to - it is the fact that they deliver a
good solid package to the small / medium business market and that they
compete like demons, straight up hard nosed business world competition (
yes they employee human beings and some of these humans have done wrong
things...name me an organization of any size where that is not the truth).
If OpenOffice.org really wants to win over the business market then it
needs to start to address the parts of the enterprise that are not
currently addressed - one of which is communications. No one that I know
of has ever called for an email module to become part of the
OpenOffice.org executable ( well, that may not be totally true, but it
does not seem to be the currently accepted wisdom..historically it was
different). What is being called for is the ability to say - there is
one ( or more ) email clients that works closely with the other modules
in the package. That a small business looking to switch could have a
point of contact ( OpenOfficce.org the organization ) that can do more
then just say - ok here is our piece, now go find the other pieces on
your own and good luck...rather ..here is our package, here is another
package that we know how to work with and here are some tools to put the
pieces together. Looked at another way, that OpenOffice.org form a
partnership, of sorts, with the organization that delivers that
communications piece so that a unified solution is available to those
that would want a single source type implementation.
Are there individuals, companies, that would rather go the pick and
choose route - of course there are, but I submit that this is not the
majority of prospective SMB users...they have neither the time,
personnel nor inclination to do so.
Anyway - just some of my personal thoughts..
Drew
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