[ale] Leaving Linux for Outlook plugin

[PairOfTwins]

Vernard:

VMware with Unity looks very promising --- except for the price.  I've 
signed up and downloaded a trial copy and will give it a trial run.  We 
shall see how much she values keeping XP confined to a file on her hard 
drive, but I'm looking forward to seeing Unity.  Seems like the Mac 
users have that feature in Parallels, too.

Tom
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Vernard Martin wrote:
> PairOfTwins wrote:
>   
>> Anyone:
>>
>> A recruiter who has been enjoying Linux for years asked me to replace it 
>> with XP!  Regrettably, she explains that a special Outlook plugin would 
>> save her so much work she could cut back her assistant's hours.  I'm 
>> suggesting XP in a VM, but she's hesitant due to speed issues.  Also it 
>> seems that this Outlook plugin would save stuff to her desktop, and 
>> she's afraid of having stuff spread across her Linux desktop and XP desktop.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated...
>>   
>>     
> If you use VMware Workstation 6.5, there is a mode called Unity where 
> you can basically have your Windows apps run natively on your desktop 
> with your Linux apps. I've used it specifically for outlook 2007 and had 
> success.
>
> Another option is to try and use Evolution which supposedly has an 
> Exchange Connector to make it talk to an Exchange server. I have never 
> gotten this to work however.
>
> hope this helps
>
> Vernard
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