German Government Commissions KDE Groupware System

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German Government Commissions KDE Groupware System

Posted by timothy on Friday September 13, 2002 @03:18AM from the paid-to-scratch-itches dept.

tankengine writes "The German government has ordered a full-blown open-source groupware solution for KDE, to be delivered by the end of this year. It will consist of a server made of standard OSS components (Apache, Postfix, LDAP, etc) called Kolab, and a KDE client. The contractors are aiming for functional equivalence to MS Exchange and Outlook 2000."

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Did you hear that? by Windcatcher · 2002-09-13 03:25 · Score: 5, Funny

I think that's the sound of hundreds of M$ employees spitting their coffee all over their monitors.
Sweet!! by FortKnox · 2002-09-13 03:26 · Score: 4, Funny

The contractors are aiming for functional equivalence to MS Exchange and Outlook 2000."

At long last. KDE will have all the security issues of Exchange and Outlook. We'll see which OS has the most viruses now!!

Moderators: please read this.

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Typo for "contractors" by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-13 03:49 · Score: 1, Funny

Come on Slashdot, its "kontractors" (not "contractors").
I really wish you'd spell check!
A secret message... ? by Consul · 2002-09-13 05:02 · Score: 3, Funny

If you look at the related links section, where they basically relist the links from the story, you get this list:

tankengine
has ordered
contractors
functional equivalence

Now, sequencing them and adding a single apostrophe, you get:

tankengine has ordered contractor's functional equivalence

I think this entire story is a front for hiding secret messages in the link texts themselves. So we may want to start poking through other Slashdot stories and look for other secret messages. :o)

(Note: Yes, this is a joke.) ;o)

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Re:reinventing the wheel? by nutshell42 · 2002-09-13 05:10 · Score: 2, Funny

[* is anyone suprised by the name? :) ]
How kould we? =)

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Re:Taxes by Hoeken · 2002-09-13 05:46 · Score: 2, Funny

move to germany

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Re:In three and a half months... by _ganja_ · 2002-09-13 06:00 · Score: 3, Funny

These are no ordanary contractors though. We're are talking about at least 2 uber KDE developers here, namely Matthias Kalle Dalheimer & Bernhard Reiter.

Plus, they are not starting from scratch, they already know the KDE infrastructure inside out and have a truck load of Jolt & Mt.Dew delivered weekly.

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Re:Is this intended to be free-to-all when done? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-13 06:03 · Score: 1, Funny

I had a dream about Bill Gates last night. We were sitting at a table and he had his arm over my shoulder, really buddy-buddy like. Nicole Kidman was dancing on the table wearing a huge jewel-encrusted necklace and really tight, short pants. Mr. Gates also had a huge necklace, made of gold. I didn't have any neclace at all and I suspected that they pitied me for it. I think this was my subconcious' way of telling me that associating with the rich and famous would be a loosing proposition, and that the arm over my shoulder was supposed to be ironic.

(Submitted in the spirit of full disclosure)
Re:reinventing the wheel? by akruppa · 2002-09-13 07:09 · Score: 2, Funny

kroupware(*)

[* is anyone suprised by the name? :) ]

I'm only surprised they didn't name it Krautware.

Oh, btw, I'm German.

Alex

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