John Anderson wrote:
While I think Morgen's idea is intriguing, I don't think that he's a
very typical customer -- or if he is, Chandler's user base will be
almost zero. Most prospective customers don't need all the features he
does and would be quite happy with something that is an improvement
over Outlook Express or Thunderbird. To be better, Chandler doesn't
have to have all the same features of those products, it just needs to
do a better job of what most people need most of the time.
I don't think that's always the case in large organizations. If it were,
I'd have dumped Outlook the first day I sat down in my office. But the
company uses Exchange for everything, and that was that. But at least I
continued using my old PIM for all but email management. :-) Morgan's
idea would solve this kind of problem very elegantly, I think.
Now, the devil is usually in the details, and in this case it may turn
out to be a whole legion of them and the idea unworkable in practice.
But if the backend experts think it's worth looking into, why not give a
quick-and-dirty prototype a shot?
Davor
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