On 21-Dec-05, at 4:58 PM, Timothy D. Witham wrote:
1) Good sync with handheld devices.
Phone, Blackbeary (sp?) and Plam or pocket PC
Evo does that in many cases, I thought, but yeah, I can totally see
that being a barrier. Seems like something that is mostly client-side.
2) Group calendaring including meeting scheduling.
i..e. I want to check if Tom, Bill, Linus and Buddy the wonder
dog are available at 10:00 PM.
This includes a laptop resyncing when it gets back to a
connected state and the last know schedule being
available on a server.
That's not email, but OK, I definitely believe that it's a barrier to
adoption. Evo has that capability with Exchange now, though -- what
are the cases in which that breaks down?
(I have a harder time believing that OpenOffice was is a more
important "browser application or plug-in" to support than QuickTime,
Windows Media, or _Java_and_ActiveX_. Is there a way to see what the
results look like if we limit to the set of respondents whose jobs
would indicate that they are specify/approve/purchase?)
3) Proxies for executives. i.e. Setup an admin to be able to
respond
to the executive's mail so that it appears to be coming
from the executive
so the lower folks don't know that the executive doesn't
read most of
their own mail.
I must not be understanding this requirement, because that sounds
like the sort of thing that is done by setting up the admin's mail
client to point at the same IMAP account as the executives. If
that's really the #3 issue, though, it sounds like we're in good shape.
This seems to be the problem as folks keep doing new clients
when the
issues is the server side stuff.
I don't understand -- Linux desktop deployment is gated by there not
being open source servers on Linux for mail and calendaring? Why are
those related? The Linux desktop could deploy against Exchange/
GroupWise/Notes/etc., no?
Thanks for the list, though -- what's the source of those pain
points? From the comments in the survey?
Mike
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