Outlook, Evolution and Kontact Side-by-Side

gaijincory writes "Opensourceversus.com has put together a nice side-by-side comparison of Microsoft Outlook, Evolution and KDE's Kontact groupware programs. The screenshots delve in to the nitty gritty details and should help in making an informed choice, if nothing else. This is a follow up to their comparison of the Outlook Express and Thunderbird e-mail clients."

Comments

Windows and Linux

[tehshen]

These guys also did Windows and Linux comparisons which make for good viewing.

Re:Windows and Linux

[toofast]

The paint program comparison... WTF! comparing paintbrush with The Gimp?? if you tell me that it is because the Gimp is part of the OS, let me tell you that it is NOT, and you CAN install it on Windows

But GIMP is already packaged on the compared Linux distributions. With Windows, the graphics tool packaged with the OS is Paint.

Same thing for text editors: you can install a bunch on Windows too, but the one that comes bundled with the OS is feature-lean Notepad.

At least the author didn't compare Word Processors: MS's WordPad would have looked equally lame vs. OpenOffice's Write, which, again, is bundled with just about every Linux distro out there. Yes, you can download and install OOo on Windows, but it's not part of the Windows Distribution.

Evolution

[svin]

You should have a look at Evolution:

Built-in Microsoft Exchange Support
Users can communicate directly with built-in WebDAV support, eliminating the need to maintain separate IMAP e-mail server access to support Linux and UNIX users.

From within Novell Evolution, users can view, edit and update e-mail, address books, calendars and task folders on the Exchange server.

Using existing global address lists, users can access names, addresses and contact information from the Exchange Global Address List.

Public folder support allows users to share documents and files in existing Exchange public folders. They can also create new public folders for collaboration.

Through the Manage Permissions feature, users can control access to personal and public folders, calendars and task lists.

With the proper authorization, users can open other users' calendars or shared folders.

The Out-of-Office Assistant helps users create custom vacation or notification messages that run on the Exchange server.

Through the Calendar Delegation feature, users can set permissions to allow others to view their calendars. Users can also delegate permission to a colleague (for example, an administrative assistant) to accept and schedule meetings in their calendars.

Direct resource booking reserves resources such as conference rooms or vehicles for your meetings and appointments.

The new mailbox- and folder-size features display Exchange server quota notifications to keep mailbox sizes down.

Taken from http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/ev olution.html

As for question 1 & 2 I'm not quite sure, but a colleague uses it, and it looks like he accesses his mail without trouble (And accepts meeting requests, Accesses public folder, etc.).