Novell To Release Ximian Connector Under GPL

ashmodai9 writes "According to this article on LinuxToday.com as well as this press release directly from their site, Novell announced that its "Connector for MS Exchange Server would be integrated into Evolution 2.0 and made available as open source, beginning today with the current Connector 1.4." Apparently, downloads will be available for the current version of Evolution starting May 14th." Thanks to reader crafterm, a snippet from Novell's Connector website: "With the Connector for Microsoft Exchange installed, Evolution functions as an Exchange client, enabling users to become full participants in company-wide group scheduling and other collaborative tasks. Linux and Solaris users can access public folders, Global Address Lists, email, calendar, task lists, and group scheduling information." Update: 05/11 17:58 GMT by T : In related news, ChiralSoftware writes "Codeweavers' long-awaited sequel to Crossover 2.1 is here. Just like the old version, the new version lets you install MS Office on Linux desktops. The new version adds support for Outlook XP, Lotus Notes and Microsoft Project."

Comments

Don't wait until the 14th.

[ivan256]

Download the source now!

Re:Don't wait until the 14th.

[Anonymous Coward]

I posted this elsewhere: You need an Exchange CAL and a Windows CAL to legally use this thing. MS has no reason to be pissed.

Re:That's great news!

[SmilingBoy]

Novell Evolution 2.0 coming in the third quarter with native GroupWise support

Re:Wonderful, wonderful - alll we need is a server

[LNX Flocki]

Also this might be of interest

Re:Good for KDE folks, too

[Per Wigren]

Now, if KMail would just add IMAP filtering... ;-)

From the KDE 3.3 Release Plan:

Redesign filters to use Sieve internally. Allow editing of Sieve scripts on IMAP servers to get rid of the bug reports a la "KMail doesn't support IMAP folders for fitering"

Re:One more step, a Win32 port of Evolution

[sgarrity]

According to this interview with Miguel de Icaza at OSNews, "Ximian is working on a native port of Evolution 2.0 to Windows using the WIMP engine to make the application look XP-native."

I imaging the reference to WIMP is the WIMP-GTK theme for GTK-on-Windows that mirrors the look of Windows.

This is how Gaim handles their Windows "port" (thought I don't think "port" is really the rigtht word.

CrossOver Office 3.0 now supports Notes 6.5.1

[Erik_]

Another good news for Linux in the Enterprise came from CodeWeaver's CrossOver Office 3.0. It now supports Lotus Notes 6.5.1 on Linux.

CodeWeaver is happy to announce that today we have shipped version 3.0 of CrossOver Office.

We've added new, official, support for Outlook XP, Microsoft Project, and Notes 6.5.1. Unofficially, we're excited by users comments that far more applications are working now. These include programs like Framemaker and Microsoft Money. You can see the full list of changes here:

http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/ change_log/

Further, this version marks some fairly ubstantial changes in our CrossOver Product line. First, we have merged the CrossOver Plugin product into the CrossOver Office product offering, so now all non server versions of CrossOver automatically provide
the Plugin functionality.

Re:Indeed: havoc in redmond

[Anonymous Coward]

cannot believe, there are not 10.000 alarm bells ringing in redmond right now.

Ximian Connector has been listed on Microsoft's website for a long time as a partner product, so they have no reason be suprised. Connector uses APIs which MS built in for the explicit purpose of interoperatbility.

Be clear on one thing (bolded for emphisis): In order to use Ximian Connector, you need to buy an Exchange CAL and a Windows CAL.

MS gets paid whether you are using Outlook or not -- in fact they get paid more because Unix cilents aren't using a free IMAP server or something.

Re:Excellent news for the FOSS community!

[Lennie]

http://www.opengroupware.org/ ?