That other Exchange connector for Evolution is comming along - evolution-brutus. There is a screenshot here: http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/evolution-b rutus.png. It is, in effect, based on MAPI so it could become an equal to MS Outlook feature-wise.
Not trying to give you a hard time, but what you're asking for would be very, very, difficult. You would essentially have to reverse engineer Microsoft's MAPI over RPC protocol. Many have tried, none have succeeded.
Which is exactly why it is a smart thing to try the other approach - proxying extended MAPI over a standard protocol. See how Brutus does this with CORBA: http://www.omesc.com/).
A breakup of Microsoft will not change a thing. We will still have at least two companies which will be interrested in supporting each other.
Picture this: A split in two companies will most probably create an OS company and an application company. What will then be the most favorable strategy for these companies (especially the application company)? Will the application company choose to support multiple operating systems and thereby increase its development costs?? I think not.
It is in the application company's best interest not to open the market for other OS's and to keep one dominant OS at the desktop. Logically, this is in the best interest of the OS company as well.
What *will* change the market is a forced price change of all Microsoft products. We will suddenly have a very significant market pressure towards alternative OS's if MS is forced to raise there price, say 3-fold.
The only way to change the present monopoly sistuation is to make it in the customers best interest to switch to alternate products, and the only way to do that, is to make it the cheapest solution.
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That other Exchange connector for Evolution is comming along - evolution-brutus. There is a screenshot here: http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/evolution-b rutus.png. It is, in effect, based on MAPI so it could become an equal to MS Outlook feature-wise.
We do mean the API. Brutus does a wrapping of extended MAPI into correcponding CORBA methods. Not easy but doable.
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A breakup of Microsoft will not change a thing. We will still have at least two companies which will be interrested in supporting each other.
Picture this: A split in two companies will most probably create an OS company and an application company. What will then be the most favorable strategy for these companies (especially the application company)? Will the application company choose to support multiple operating systems and thereby increase its development costs?? I think not.
It is in the application company's best interest not to open the market for other OS's and to keep one dominant OS at the desktop. Logically, this is in the best interest of the OS company as well.
What *will* change the market is a forced price change of all Microsoft products. We will suddenly have a very significant market pressure towards alternative OS's if MS is forced to raise there price, say 3-fold.
The only way to change the present monopoly sistuation is to make it in the customers best interest to switch to alternate products, and the only way to do that, is to make it the cheapest solution.
Money talks...