Sam Stainsby wrote:
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:19:00 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
As others have mentioned, Mozilla or Thunderbird will handle mail and
addressbook functions, calendaring is under development. Evolution will
handle maiol, address book and calendaring.
You can read more about or download Mozilla or Evolution from these two
addresses:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html
I find calendaring frustratingly problematic with current OSS applications:
Unfortunately,Mozilla and Sunbird don't have a complete, user-friendly
feature set (e.g. when it comes to setting up invitations/appointments
by email). Also, Sunbird is not quite stable enough for widespread use
(although I use it for successfully as a simple local calendar).
Evolution has a much better feature set, and is not too hard for Outlook
refugees to change over to. The problem here is that it hasn't been ported
to Windows. Again, not a problem for me, but a problem for larger
organisations that I work for who are trying to incrementally move to open
source, who are not yet ready to adopt desktop Linux.
Does anyone know if there has been any progress porting Evolution to
Windows. It is desperately needed. If that's not going to happen, then I
fully support the idea of an Outlook replacement as a component of
OpenOffice.
Cheers,
Sam.
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It sounds like you are looking for replacements for Exchange Server
more than just outlook. There was a recent discussion on the Fedora
list about this.
Here is some info that I saved from that discussion. I don't think
these application should be part of OOo but work as plugins.
http://zimbra.com/
Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation
collaboration technology. Currently, this technology is available as a
beta version. At Zimbra, our goal is to make e-mail, calendar,
contacts and other communications technologies the best they can be.
We believe that by opening the technology to the community we will
ensure that we can maximize innovation, scale and the ability to
co-exist with existing messaging systems.
http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/
The OPEN-XCHANGE Collaboration and Integration Server Environment
allows you to store appointments, contacts, tasks, mails, bookmarks,
documents, and many more elements and share them with other users.
This environment can be accessed via any modern web browser and
multiple fat clients like KDE Kontact, Apples iCAL, Konqueror, Mozilla
Calendar, any many more, based on open standards and interfaces.
If you download OXlook, then OPEN-XCHANGE can also be accessed via MS
Outlook and Palm devices. Browse the Wiki and the download section for
further information.
http://www.nitix.com/
Various software packages. Commercial it looks like.
http://opensourcecms.com/
This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the
opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and
open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the
administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system
best suits your needs.
The administrator username and password is given for every system and
each system is deleted and re-installed every two hours. This allows
you to to add and delete content, change the way things look,
basically be the admin of any system here without fear of breaking
anything.
Here is another link from the thread about exchange.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oser
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Robin Laing
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