Alexandro Colorado wrote:
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.
This discussion is everything but new, and I think this is an example
of the situation when the marketing community has to step forward
because and translate the developer speech in the language that end
users can understand.
End users have a logic in which the marketing community should grasp
understand and manage an answer that will serve their tought process
as opposed to ours. For that reason I will like to encourage the rest
of the project members to brainstorm a good answer and make a page
documenting and publishing the answer.
Along the lines of the "What's the roadmap because we want to spread
accurate information" query, I remember a year or two ago when this
topic came up there was a great deal of movement to work with the
Mozilla people to make an API to integrate Thunderbird into OOo as an
add-on (i.e., make the two easy to incorporate). Does anyone know where
this went?
For that matter, it should be a relatively simple matter to put a PIM
into OOo: just download the Mozilla Thunderbird code, tweak it a bit to
add the OOo graphics and "look and feel", and badda-boom, badda-bing,
you got yourselves a simple PIM/email client. IIRC, Mozilla's license
would allow this to be done. No need to reinvent the wheel; just get it
from a different supplier of wheels.
Any thoughts on this? I mean, it's such a simple solution that someone
else must have come up with this before, so there must be a reason why
it's not done.
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Steven Shelton
Twilight Media & Design
www.TwilightMD.com
www.GLOAMING.us
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