Personally I think this is a great idea. Of course I know nothing about OpenMail itself, but do think Linux desperatly needs an integrated messaging/calendaring solution like the one exchange/outlook provide. It's a big draw back for Linux, since after all E-Mail is one of the bigger (the biggest ?) element of an IT infrastructure. SMTP/POP3 and so on do work, but don't have some of the features the corporate world likes to see, like fully integrated global address books (That you use with calendaring as well), the ability to retract an e-mail message, and so on. They also require a LOT of storage space (Unlike say Groupwise, which only keeps one copy of anything, so when you send an attachment to 10 users on the same postoffice, only one copy of the attachment is kept.). Then there's Calendaring, Tasking, To-Do lists, etc... IMAP is part of the solution, but not good enough.
Hey, maybe I'm just not aware of it, but there really should be an Open Source project working on a competitive product to exchange/outlook.
As for OpenMail, I'm definitely going to give it a chance and take a look at it.
What's the big deal ? I don't know why it was compared to the iMac in the first place...
Stop comparing it to everything else you can think of, and judge it for what it is !
I think it's great machine ! Plenty of power under the hood and everything, and takes little desktop room.
Sure Laptops are good, but typing on those keyboards is a PAIN, and the screen is smaller.
This is great for a home office, or small businesses. I'd get one, add a PC Card NIC, and be on my way, of course I couldn't care less about the DVD, especially if running Linux.
All in all this a cool box, IMHO.
And who gives a damn who they trie to copy, immitate, or who had what idea first ? I don't. Really doesn't matter. What matters is the end products.
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Personally I think this is a great idea. Of course I know nothing about OpenMail itself, but do think Linux desperatly needs an integrated messaging/calendaring solution like the one exchange/outlook provide. It's a big draw back for Linux, since after all E-Mail is one of the bigger (the biggest ?) element of an IT infrastructure. SMTP/POP3 and so on do work, but don't have some of the features the corporate world likes to see, like fully integrated global address books (That you use with calendaring as well), the ability to retract an e-mail message, and so on. They also require a LOT of storage space (Unlike say Groupwise, which only keeps one copy of anything, so when you send an attachment to 10 users on the same postoffice, only one copy of the attachment is kept.). Then there's Calendaring, Tasking, To-Do lists, etc ...
IMAP is part of the solution, but not good enough.
Hey, maybe I'm just not aware of it, but there really should be an Open Source project working on a competitive product to exchange/outlook.
As for OpenMail, I'm definitely going to give it a chance and take a look at it.
J.F.
What's the big deal ? I don't know why it was compared to the iMac in the first place ...
Stop comparing it to everything else you can think of, and judge it for what it is !
I think it's great machine ! Plenty of power under the hood and everything, and takes little desktop room.
Sure Laptops are good, but typing on those keyboards is a PAIN, and the screen is smaller.
This is great for a home office, or small businesses. I'd get one, add a PC Card NIC, and be on my way, of course I couldn't care less about the DVD, especially if running Linux.
All in all this a cool box, IMHO.
And who gives a damn who they trie to copy, immitate, or who had what idea first ? I don't. Really doesn't matter. What matters is the end products.
J.F.