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Mitch Kapor Joins Ximian Board of Directors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the adding-more-monkeys dept.

miguel writes: "Today we announced that Mitch Kapor has joined our Board of Directors. He is one of the co-founders of the EFF and Lotus (You can learn more about Mitch here.) In other news, I want to point out guys to our Latest Evolution beta which comes with SSL support (IMAP and SMTP), Pilot syncing and LDAP in the default build. The team at Ximian has been busy fixing every bug you guys have reported (feature requests will have to wait until 1.0 ships, we are in feature freeze now) and we are closing bugs faster that you can report them. What are you guys going to do about this huh? HUH?"

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  1. impressive work by johnycanal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nice work. Evolution is turning out to be a sweet piece of software. Any idea when we can start building our own iCal servers? I haven't seen much open source iCal server activity out there.

    I can't wait to boot the exchange box out the door.

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  2. Re:Why Use Ximian? by steveha · · Score: 5, Interesting
    My understanding is that Ximian is merely a 'distro' of GNOME.

    More or less correct.

    So, why would I use Ximian instead of GNOME?

    Um, this is like asking why you would use Red Hat instead of Linux. Ximian is a distro of GNOME. When you use Ximian you are using GNOME.

    To answer the question of why you would use Ximian, let's consider how you can get GNOME:

    You can get GNOME from your Linux distribution, and then get updates only when your Linux distro provides an update.

    You can get GNOME stuff as sources, and build on your own machine.

    You can get the Ximian GNOME packages, and get updates from Ximian.
    If there is a fourth option, I cannot think of it right now.

    So, if your Linux distro provides you with updates as often as you wish, just stick with that. If you like building from source, go ahead and do that. If you want updates more often than your distro gives them to you, and you want someone else to build the packages for you, go with Ximian.

    As for me, I use the "unstable" branch of Debian; and I get updates within a few days of any new release. Debian had Gnumeric 0.71 within two days of when it was released. So I have no interest in getting Ximian packages. But I think many people find it convenient to get updates from Ximian.

    steveha

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  3. Kapor not perfect by maggard · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Not to throw any cold water but Mitch Kapor's record is not perfect. He was pretty much pushed out of Lotus. He then went on to found On Technology which was going to revolutionize the world.

    The On Platform was developed with much money and some very big names. It was basically reusable software components - they lasted a few years in a couple of products, the company continued to blow through money and was sold off and now has nothing in common with the original. The breakthrough tech has long since dissapeared.

    Since then he's had mixed success mostly trading in on his old-man-of-the-industry status. It's great that he's joining Ximian but this guy has had his share of misses along with a spectacular hit a generation ago.

    Disclusure: I was hired the day On was bought from Kapor but never worked for him and his former staff seemed genuinely fond of him

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