Re: [tdf-discuss] Co-working with Moz, etc

Ian Lynch wrote:
> On 1 January 2011 18:43, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent
> > program such as outlook.
> >
> >     
>
>
> Why waste time and effort on this when there are other perfectly valid
> alternatives? Evolution, Thunderbird for open source and Gmail on the web.
> Web based mail is now mature and much easier to manage for anyone that moves
> about. Gmail on an Android phone seems to me a far better solution than
> being tied to the desktop. Effort going into new apps like a mail client
> (even modifying and maintaining existing code) would be much better placed
> in getting a mobile version of LO for smarphones or a web version. If not
> the whole project could eventually become irrelevant.
>
> There are one of three ways it can be done.
>   
> > 1) fork something like evolution which has all that done and integrate it
> > into the LO suite
> >
> > 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena.
> >
> > the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download size,
> > which
> > would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth.
> >     
It seems to me that the only people who are concerned with having an 
equivalent of Outlook in their office suite are businesses, and 
businesses as a rule DO NOT have slow bandwidth connections, because 
they simply could not function with them.   If you are concerned with 
download size as far as software packages aimed at businesses is 
concerned, then you are simply aiming at the WRONG audience. 

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