Re: [opensuse] where's novell? (bit of a rant)

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Andreas van dem Helge wrote:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:01 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I show them that wine will run those two packages (without belaboring
the details) and absolve them of their Outlook sins, bless them with Kmail
(spam filtered of course) they become converts rather quickly.

The only problem is Kmail is just not the same class application as
Outlook. Evolution is but I've found its Exchange connector not to be
reliable. Please tell me how I can share my contacts, addressbook &
email on both my PC and mobile phone seamlessly? There's Scalix with
poor mobile support which requires a Windows server anyways .... the
Evolution connector works ok. There's Zimbra but the connector won't
compile with the Evolution that openSuSE ships and the mobile support
isnt as robust as Outlook/Exchange.


Hmmm... T-Bird with appropriate plugins is way better than KMail in some
respects and by far a better tool than Outlook... Evolution is a little
hampered by some issues with extensibility, but is also a very powerful
tool, but until it becomes as extensible as T-Bird and the Mozilla
family will be less attractive ...

For server end Synchronisation there is also Funambol/Sync4j which does
both push e-Mail to the Blackberry, calendar and contact
synchronisation, the Evolution Funambol plugin does work but as yet
no-one has written a nice GUI for it. There are issues with the Mozilla
Funambol client with the OpenSuSE version of Thunderbird which I intend
to look into in more depth sometime soon. (Oh yes there is an Outlook
Client as well, but lets not go there).

There is also e-Groupware which has its own internal sync server and
openPSA which uses a client plugin for Funambol (the latter requires
Midgard which I have yet to get working on SuSE).

Mobile device synchronisation with Symbian based phones has historically
been an issue on Windows, and very weak with Linux. Someone will
probably mention openSync at this point but having had a look at the
rather scanty information on this project I get the impression this is
an attempt to bend the OMA specification to a client to client
communication situation on a local cable whereas the OMA specification
is built around a client/server architecture over TCP/IP. The approach
seems to be a little limited in intended scope.

Curiously Windows Mobile is not as good at synchronising as one would
expect, about the only major player in the Smart Phone world that has
competent synchronisation functionality in both Windows and Linux worlds
are those based on Palm OS.

Data synchronisation is not easy....





The don't WANT WINDOWS.

I agree... But I want OUTLOOK....


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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup
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