German Government Commissions KDE Groupware System

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?

[Windcatcher]

I think that's the sound of hundreds of M$ employees spitting their coffee all over their monitors.

Sweet!!

[FortKnox]

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.

A secret message... ?

[Consul]

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)

Re:In three and a half months...

[_ganja_]

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.