Is there an ECCO out there?

Josquin is on a quest to find ECCO, a PIM software offering from NetManage. He felt it was one of the best ones on the market. Since it's quite possible that this particular piece of software has gone to binary limbo, I was wondering if someone might happen to be familiar with this particular package and might be able to suggest other alternative packages. To hear Josquin's own words on the subject, click on the link below."

Josquin asks: "A few years back, when stuck in the morass which is the Microsoft paradigm, I remember one bright spot. It was the PIM known as ECCO Professional. It was owned by NetManage, toward the end of its lifecycle, but judging by their website, they have apparently abandoned it. What made it so compelling was that it actually lived up to the title Personal Infomation Manager. In addition to your standard appointment and address books, it made it very easy to keep track of, categorize, recall, and recombine substantial amounts of largely unrelated data. It let you link your ideas and facts based on whatever criteria made sense to you. It was a breeze to schedule appointments by dragging a phone listing to your calendar. There was also a little arrow shaped icon called the Shooter which allowed you to transfer information between programs. Mail merges could be handled straight from your address book to the major word processing programs of the day, with a link to the document automatically saved under that client's information in your address book. One-off letters could be addressed just using the Shooter from the address book. Ecco Pro was highly configurable, but came with a very complete set of templates that made it pretty simple for new users to customize it to their liking. The only thing I would have added was a way to use this program as your desktop.

This is the kind of personal productivity application that the non-technical masses need: something which makes their day-to-day jobs/life easier to manage. It was a program that actually saved you time rather than just giving you more configurable output (which seems frequently to mean you take an hour to get a letter looking right that only took you 15 minutes to compose.)

I was curious whether anyone was familiar with any product(s) under Linux which were working toward a similar feature set? This could have the potential to be the "must have" application that convinces the money guys to take the plunge into Linux. "Hey, not only is the OS free and reliable, but since we've loaded that SuperPIM, it's giving us three extra hours a week of available time from each of our employees (above and beyond the increase from system uptime)!"