[ale] Groupware/Office software - Let's keep the borg away!

[Fulton Green]

Ximian (the driving force behind the GNOME desktop) is working on a GPL'd
groupware app called Evolution ( http://www.Ximian.com/apps/evolution.php3 ).
'course, the problem is that most of your client software needs to run on
M$ desktops. The answer: if you can find an Windoze-based apps that can speak
the iCalendar protocol (and I'm guessing that M$ Outlook probably doesn't),
you'll be good to go.

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:33:53AM -0600, Michael Phillips KF4PFW" wrote:
> The office where I work is currently Pro-"Best OS for the Job" and I have 14 Linux/Solaris Boxen providing various services to the company.
> 
> Last year, we were purchased by a Pro-M$ company and they have been pushing us to switch over to WinCrap 2K for all of our "major" services, so far unsuccessfully. The major push is for us to abandon our current RH Mail serve in favor of a Win2K/Exchange setup. The reasoning is that Exchange offers all these "neat" features on the client end (i.e. calender, scheduler, shared address book etc) that "Linux doesn't".
> 
> After talking with my Boss (who is quite happy with what we currently have and agrees with me that only 1%-2% of our folks would use these features), he has suggested that we find something that will offer those features found with using exchange in the Open Source community.
> 
> I have spent quite a bit of time searching freshmeat and turned up several interesting packages, however none that fit the bill.
> 
> We don't mind paying for such a beastie, we just gotta find it.
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