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Mozilla Email & Calendar PDA Synchronization?
jark writes "Outlook is, for the most part, the industry standard for contact management, personal information management and email use in the corporate workplace. We are looking in to deploying Mozilla across our network, included with the Calendar project, but have one last necessary hurdle: PalmOS synchronization. Are there currently any applications that will sync Mozilla mail, address books and calendar events with PalmOS based handhelds? If not, are there any plans in the works for this to become a reality?"
Why deploy a brand new browser? Why deploy something that just came out? Sure it's been tested and tested and tested and peer reviewed, but that guarantees you nothing.
IE is free. It comes with windows. It has its share of security problems but they are easily fixed and deployed. How easy do you think it will be to patch all your copies of Mozilla when something happens? And it will happen. Will you be able to use Active Directory or NT Policy patch to manage all your PC's? I assume since you don't like MS, you don't have SMS installed.
How much time do you want to "waste" getting people up to speed with a system they don't know anything about? Deploy Mozilla at home or at your friends' houses. Geek it up somewhere else.
Suck it up and go with MS - you might not like it, but all the people you support - your CUSTOMERS for all intents & purposes might not like Mozilla. They know how to use IE. They don't want to learn anything new. They'll resent you if you take away their ability to use their Palms.
My $0.02, to be sure, but look at the big picture. It's great to stand up for and support what you believe in, but I have yet to hear a good solid argument for the kind of thing you're trying to do.