On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:24:27 -0500, William Baric wrote: > I had one of them who was willing to switch to OpenOffice. They didn't > have too much money and they were willing to put up with OpenOffice's > Word, Excel and PowerPoint import/export filter (thanks to MS Viewers). > They were also willing to buy Antidote licence (a french grammar checker > that integrate with OpenOffice). But in the end, I had to forget about > this project because of outlook. The director had a Palm and he wanted > calendar sharing. This meant that They had to buy Outlook.
I also work for an organisation that is unwilling to move away from Microsoft Office because they feel that they need the calendaring and meeting arrangement facilities of Outlook, on Windows. Many of them frequently work offline, so web-based solutions are not applicable. I'm pinning my hopes on Evolution for Windows, but the project seems to be moving very slowly (understandably, as it is a complex project with many libraries to port). I think that people that argue that there is no reason to develop a mail client as part of OpenOffice because there are other mail client applications available are misguided for two reasons: 1. The other mail clients don't have the needed functionality on the commonest desktop platform in the world (please note I'm a Linux user myself - I don't endorse Microsoft Windows - far from it - but we have to face the reality that it is out there and this is unlikely to change for some time). 2. This idea that OpenOffice only concentrates on applications that are not available from other packages is completely bogus. Look at OpenOffice Draw for example and compare it to packages like Inkscape. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]