Re: [OT] Web n Walk T-Mobile

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been pinning my hopes on Hula and Thunderbird evolving into a
good
competitor for Exchange/Outlook but progress on Hula is so slow with hardly
anyone outside Novell working on it.

Many of the OSS people dismiss Exchange/Outlook because they don't
understand it's power - dragging emails etc to the calendar/tasklist etc to
create new items - and I think they tend to see it as yet another email
program.

The biggest complaint I've got is with the web version of Outlook as it's
just seems clunky compared to other web-based email solutions. Google
showed
it was possible to have a decent (ish) web mail app, but even they've got
usability problems in my view (lack of folders is a big issue for me).

Andy


On 10/11/06, Ian Lowe <ianlowe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And there never will be, unless there's a major sea change in FOSS
> attitudes.
>
> Because any time this discussion pops up on contribs.org (or anywhere
else
> for that matter), the penguin zealots will refuse to
> acknowledge/understand
> that despite their general bitching about Microsoft, Exchange/Outlook
is
> an
> absolutely fantastic mail system.
>
> All you ever hear from the Linux crowd is "why would anyone want
shared
> calendaring", "you should use this web client instead",
"outlook sucks"
> and
> so on.
>
> Email is the absolute killer app, and Exchange 2K3 with outlook is
pretty
> much the definitive solution at this point - nothing else comes close.
>
> I dual boot Ubuntu 6.06, and Evolution is nice, but it's still clunky
-
> it's
> up to the level of Outlook 97. Problem is, it's not 1997 any more. and
> even
> then there's no comparable back end server.
>
> It's one of those things - it would be great to have a strong open
source
> contender with Exchange - but for now it's a complete pipe dream.
>
> Ian.
>
>


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