On Tue, 02 May 2006 03:20:52 -0500, Finn Gruwier Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Alexandro Colorado skrev:
For the past few weeks there has been a very big discussion about
reasons and what and why not does OOo doesn't come with a PIM. The
issue has extended a bit too much and I realize this is really puting a
lot of pressure on prooject such as the marketing list to come forward
with documentation on why OOo doesn't have nor plan to develop a PIM
program for the near feature. Also detail more what are the
alternatives on a far more indepth reasoning for using alternatives and
even go as far as conecting this users to the developers of the
alternative projects.
Outlook is part of MS Office, and people who are used to Microsoft
products but novices in the open world often ask why OOo doesn't have an
Outlook alternative. Technically, the reason is, i suppose, that there
are lots of Outlook-alternatives in the open world, and OOo doesn't want
to spend resources on inventing the wheel. But many people don't know
the open Outook-alternatives, and Microsoft is using this in their FUD
against us. I remember Ballmer once said that OOo "didn't even have a
mail client".
I think the OOo Marketing project truely has a challenge in
communicating this issue and pointing end users to good alternatives to
Outlook.
Finn
Ok so the next step is how do we comunicate. I think puting an open letter
explaining the reason why we don't have these might at least prove a
stance on the issue. Not doing it will just be failing to communicate. I
think the best option is to start working on mockups on how this open
letter should be assemble and use the wiki to work on the draft.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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