The server part of the Microsoft solution really is what is creating the
lock-in. Providing a cross-platform choice that works with the existing
infrastructure is an easier battle to fight than getting an enterprise to
switch to a new server. ...and as long as Exchange remains the enterprise
server of choice, Outlook will remain the client of choice.
The trick then becomes to create demand for that server-end app by creating a
client that supports compelling additional features without crippling the user
for not having the server end of the solution.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy D. Witham
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:58 PM
To: Mike Shaver
Cc: desktop_architects@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:31 -0500, Mike Shaver wrote:
On 21-Dec-05, at 4:19 PM, Otto Wyss wrote:
From the Linux desktop survey the most wanted application is an
Emailer. So let’s get this problem solved, a cross-platform Emailer
which is good enough to replace Outlook as the default Emailer for
the masses.
Yeah, let's get that problem solved! Why didn't anyone think of that
before? =)
I don't know from wyoGuide, or why it's a requirement (or why POP3
needs to be in a separate library (or, TBH, why there are
implementation requirements at all, at this point)) but your
description is not very far from either Thunderbird or post-Windows-
port Evolution, as I read it. (Maybe Kmail, I dunno anything about it.)
The Linux desktop survey didn't make it clear to me what specifically
was wrong with the current offerings in terms of email, though I'll
confess that I saw it was about enterprise deployment and started
skimming. Clearly (?) there is some critical failing in the current
Evo/Tbird/Kmail offerings, but I don't think it's anything on your
current list, because that stuff is pretty much covered.
Anyone know more?
It isn't the client side. It is the server side.
1) Good sync with handheld devices.
Phone, Blackbeary (sp?) and Plam or pocket PC
2) Group calendaring including meeting scheduling.
i..e. I want to check if Tom, Bill, Linus and Buddy the wonder
dog are available at 10:00 PM.
This includes a laptop resyncing when it gets back to a
connected state and the last know schedule being
available on a server.
3) Proxies for executives. i.e. Setup an admin to be able to respond
to the executive's mail so that it appears to be coming from the
executive
so the lower folks don't know that the executive doesn't read most of
their own mail.
P.S. Open source because they don't want to be locked in like what happened
with their last supplier of group mail/calendaring.
This seems to be the problem as folks keep doing new clients when the
issues is the server side stuff.
Tim
Mike
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