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Chandler 0.1 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-dot-oh-dot dept.

kolchak writes "Very promising news is Chandler 0.1 (the Open Source PIM) has finally been released. 'While we are still very early in the design and implementation process, we intend for this 0.1 release to make us a more fully open project. We have made the release available for download, opened up our bug tracking database, and opened our source code repository.'" This is Mitch Kapor's attempt to offer an alternative to Microsoft Outlook, especially to small (under 100-person) organizations, last mentioned in December.

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  1. Does it run on FreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I use FreeBSD exclusively, so it's important that the software be truly portable without any incompatible linuxisms.

  2. Features by rf0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I went to have a look at the site I had a list of things I would want to see. These were

    Diary
    Sharing of Calenders
    Phone book

    Now this has all of them as well as a few other cools things like inbuilt IM. Good luck to them I say. However I'm not sure but does the system has a centeral server it good log into rather than just peer to peer as it says?

    Rus

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  3. In that case no one will use it. by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Call it the law of Open Source Pangloss Parity: No one will use a piece of consumer oriented open source software unless it looks and behaves exactly like some piece of Microsoft software, no matter how badly the behavior of said MS software was designed.

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  4. what's with the name? by hkon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the article: Our product (code-named "Chandler" after the great detective novelist Raymond Chandler,)

    Are these people so out of touch with the world most of us live in that they don't realize a lot of people will think of that goofy guy from "Friends" when they hear this name? Personally, I don't want my applications behaving anything like this guy.

    Oh, and does this make Outlook Chandler's cross-dressing dad?

  5. Why only Win XP not 2000 or 98 by leoaugust · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the goal is to have it used by small and medium sized businesses, why aren't there versions for Win 2000, or 98 ?? Most of the small businesses due to budget restrictions haven't yet updated to Win XP - esp due to its activation feature.

    Has anyone tried to install Chandler on older Win versions?

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  6. Re:Windows version ? by evilviper · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Okay, I understand this is /. and nobody reads the articles, but why did this have to be modded up? Come on now! It takes 2 clicks, and about 3 seconds to find the list of downloads, which includes Windows...

    Next up, comments asking for someone to repost the /. summary in the comments section!

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  7. client isn't the issue by martin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The server is....we need a usable, easily deployable MS-Exchange/Notes server competitor.

    Sure you can build things with LDAP/Imap/web-mail and make them all talk to one-another, BUT you need a server then does alot of this for you...

    Until you can point and click your way through a server installation you're not going to win over the MS-Exchange sites.

    Yes SuSE have their openmail thing, but need a 'freeware' version of this that runs on *nix (ie more than just Linux, but the *BSD,SOlaris, HPUX, AIX variants as well - like Apache does).

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    1. Re:client isn't the issue by override11 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And it needs to import all our bloated exchange 5.5 crud!!!!!! I'm sorry, its tough to convince everyone in this organization to switch when we are going to loose all 14 gigs of our data store. :P

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  8. P2P by Samus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On the surface p2p sounds like a great idea for a PIM app that needs collaboration. Then I start thinking about the holes this leaves. Suppose I use a laptop at work and take it home every now and then. If I leave at 4 and somebody wants to schedule a meeting with me for 7:00 AM the next day after I have left, how does it then confirm the appointment? If I just turn my machine off at night then anybody that wants to poll my schedule will have to wait until I come in in the morning. The next hurdle to get over would be the bandwidth issues. P2P apps are necessarily chatty. On a small lan that might not be such a big deal but a decent sized company will surely squash this like netbios. Will anybody want to invest in a program that they know their company will not be able to use a few years down the road when they have tripled in size? Realistically speaking most small companies are not going to triple in size in the next few years but admitting so is like saying that their growth is permantly stunted.

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  9. Re:oooh yay! by cyb97 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Strike open-source add a couple of $$$s and you've got Lotus Notes...