Whenceforth the Ubuntu fanboyz now?

[Christopher Friedt]

OpenOffice has done a pretty good job at convincing loads of people to 
switch office software. I use it regularly, and although I still find a 
few odds and ends that could be fixed, I'm happy enough with it.

Now if someone only did that same sort of 'ISO standardized XML format' 
thing they did w/ the open document format, but to groupware instead. 
That would be pretty great.

I absolutely loathe groupware in any case... outlook, groupwise... even 
evolution i'm sad to say.



Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 21:35, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>>>> I spent about a month struggling with it until I finally gave up.
>>>> IMO, Evolution is good for one thing: showing Windows users how bad
>>>> Open Source software can be.
>>>     Is that because it tries to emulate Outlook?
>> The client/server connection between Outlook and Exchange uses MAPI as
>> its protocol instead of POP or IMAP.
> 
> And evolution-exchange uses webdav (emulating what outlook web access does),  
> 
> I've also tried evolution-exchange and my experience was pretty awful.  
> Stephen in an email a little while ago mentioned evolution-brutus which 
> sounds interesting unfortunately it seems like evolution-brutus is a server 
> which must be set up on a Windows server.
> 
> If you are given an exchange server I don't think there's any way around it.  
> Use outlook, use a blackberry (if you have blackberry enterprise server) or 
> use outlook web access.  I use rdesktop to login to a Windows server and run 
> outlook natively from there.
> 
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