> Richard Hamilton Wrote: >I don't know if it's an integrated client (although any GUI mail client >ought to play reasonably nicely with other GUI clients, IMO, esp. in terms >of adding or accessing attachments), it's also all the other stuff that MS >does over their proprietary MAPI protocol: calendars, to-do lists, some >sort of shared folders, etc. There are certainly a bunch of alternative >ways to do those things, although to waht degree their servers would support >them, I don't know off the top of my head. Typically, you don't get full >functionality >out of them unless you do things their way, which IMO subverts open standards.
I'm not concerned about "their" servers. Its perfeclty possible today to build a server environment on the Sun Java Enterprise Communications Suite , for mail, calender and IM. What unix/linux does not have right now is an integrated Office environment that includes the PIM stuff. A PIM module added to Openoffice would fix that. Evolution and Thunderbird works but is not integrated with OOo. I have heard several of my contacts in the IT bussiness moan about this lack in OOo being a problem for them. To solve the integration problem for the users has the effect that the reliance on "their" servers can be undone and bussiness can use "our" servers to ship mail. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
