Chandler 0.1 Released

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.

Comments

Why only Win XP not 2000 or 98

[leoaugust]

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?

client isn't the issue

[martin]

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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Martin

Re:client isn't the issue

[override11]

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