On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 19:08, Nat Friedman wrote: > On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 19:09, Stephen Witkop wrote: > > The only problem that I have with this is the timing. Ximian Connector > > has obviously been planned for some time, so why wasn't it laid out > > along with all the other plans for evolution. It just makes it seem as > > though Ximian was afraid they would lose support among developers and > > users so they didn't announce anything until they had what they wanted. > > I'm not saying that's what they were actually doing but that's certainly > > the way it seems. > > I can see how it might seem that way. A big component of the timing was > not wanting to announce it before we could start demoing it and giving > out evaluation copies to potential customers. We weren't trying to > trick anyone, but we didn't want to announce it and then ask people who > wanted to buy it to wait 6 months before they could see a demo :-). > > Best, > > Nat >
I would agree with that. Ximian is a company that that needs to into consideration such non-trivial details like revenue and saleable products. Regarding the timing of the Connector announcement, I have no problems with it. I am rather tired of hearing about great products, commercial or open-source, eagerly bite my nails for 6-12 months, and end up being disappointed with the thing when it finally does arrive. Evolution is one of the best pieces of software I have seen on any platform, and I am an ex-die-hard Mac user who has seen some awesome applications. True, I still have some problems with Evolution (I still can't get spell-checking to work), and some speed issues could be improved, but the fact that Ximian put in all this work under GPL is awesome. In that spirit, I would volunteer for evaluating the Connector. We don't have an Exchange server yet, but the beast is coming in the next few weeks, and I was getting worried about the calendaring issue. Ujwal _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
