Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Jeff Cai wrote:
>
>>> 2) Does Sun or OpenSolaris recommend/support one of the calendar
>>> programs more than the others?
>>>
>> It should be Thunderbird calendar.
>>
>
> I hope that Sun will consider also offering a stand-alone calendar
> program so that the calendar is not tied (at run-time) to a specific
> email client. Email-based notifications can still be sent out using
> the email system which is included in Solaris (i.e. sendmail) so it is
> not necessary to depend on an email client which delivers outside of
> the OS email facilities.
>
> Coupling the calendar to an email program effectively establishes
> policy as to which email program needs to be used. People use many
> different email programs for a variety of reasons.
>
I think once Sunbird reaches a 1.0 milestone, OpenSolaris is likely to
pick it up. Right now its still pre-release.
-- Garrett
> Bob
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