The one that directly impacts me can be seen here: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/june11/ hepb.html
The article has, atleast to me, a layman's description of the process. Although this article only talks about using this method to regulate the Hepatitis B virus, other publications from various researchers have shown progress with AIDS and Hepatitis C.
Bloated as it may be, Evolution's capabilities, especially being able to sync with Exchange calendar, are what make using Linux as a desktop bearable in certain corporate environments.
You must remember that we are talking about desktops, not the backend. 99% of users don't get to touch or have much influence on what or how the backend servers are implemented. In settings where MS Exchange is the backend for email and calendaring, the only options to non Outlook users are Evolution or OWA. Bloated as it may be, I'd definitely like to see Evolution continue to grow in that area.
The biggest problem with evolution is the inability to upgrade to newer versions without upgrading GNOME and with certain features on Linux, the kernel. Yes, open source allows anyone to build these things; but the dependency requirements make it horrendous to users who just want a working client.
Example: I've been trying to upgrade the evolution that came with GNOME 2.10 on my system (gnome was already upgraded from what was shipped with RedHat's AS 3.0 release) to the latest release....you see, they tell me that the new one doesn't pop up a seperate window for each calendar notificatio event....
1. the garnome 2.12.1 release is a piece of #@$!@; it's suppose to make
life easier for people trying to build their own gnome packages?
2. switched to jhbuild and ran into even more problems with system libraries
and crap...
3. got pissed off with #1 and #2 and upgraded whole system from RH 3.0 to RH
4.0. Now, jhbuild is working well....if well means I still have to go
look at makefiles,.h files, and.c files to fix things...but atleast
they look obvious. Things look promising so far..but about 50% through.
People expect these kind of things will encourage people to adopt Linux as a corporate desktop? Not with a million foot pole.
I am still wishing my stars the Mozilla folks will get Exchange functionality into Thunderbird (functionality means seeing/responding calendar notifications, getting alerts, etc).
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The one that directly impacts me can be seen here: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/june11/ hepb.html
The article has, atleast to me, a layman's description of the process. Although this article only talks about using this method to regulate the Hepatitis B virus, other publications from various researchers have shown progress with AIDS and Hepatitis C.
Bloated as it may be, Evolution's capabilities, especially being able to sync with Exchange calendar, are what make using Linux as a desktop bearable in
.h files, and .c files to fix things...but atleast
certain corporate environments.
You must remember that we are talking about desktops, not the backend. 99%
of users don't get to touch or have much influence on what or how the backend
servers are implemented. In settings where MS Exchange is the backend for
email and calendaring, the only options to non Outlook users are Evolution
or OWA. Bloated as it may be, I'd definitely like to see Evolution continue
to grow in that area.
The biggest problem with evolution is the inability to upgrade to newer
versions without upgrading GNOME and with certain features on Linux,
the kernel. Yes, open source allows anyone to build these things; but the
dependency requirements make it horrendous to users who just want a working
client.
Example: I've been trying to upgrade the evolution that came with GNOME 2.10
on my system (gnome was already upgraded from what was shipped with RedHat's
AS 3.0 release) to the latest release....you see, they tell me that the new
one doesn't pop up a seperate window for each calendar notificatio event....
1. the garnome 2.12.1 release is a piece of #@$!@; it's suppose to make
life easier for people trying to build their own gnome packages?
2. switched to jhbuild and ran into even more problems with system libraries
and crap...
3. got pissed off with #1 and #2 and upgraded whole system from RH 3.0 to RH
4.0. Now, jhbuild is working well....if well means I still have to go
look at makefiles,
they look obvious. Things look promising so far..but about 50% through.
People expect these kind of things will encourage people to adopt Linux as a
corporate desktop? Not with a million foot pole.
I am still wishing my stars the Mozilla folks will get Exchange functionality
into Thunderbird (functionality means seeing/responding calendar notifications,
getting alerts, etc).