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

On 01/02/2011 10:49 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2011-01-01 1:43 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent
> > program such as outlook.
>
> Well, I disagree, but there is no way to prove one of us is right, so...
>
> > 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
>
> Evolution is extremely buggy, *especially* on Windows, but yes, even on
> *nix... Yes, there are many people who run it without problems, but
> there are far more who complain of constant crashes and bugs, even on
> the stablest of systems (otherwise)...
>
> > 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena.
>
> Thunderbird+Lightning would be the best other choice here...not perfect
> by any stretch, but the only viable FLOSS alternative on Windows at the
> moment, at least that I am aware of...
>
> > the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download size, which
> > would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth.
>
> Thunderbird+Lightning is not that big...

Might be worth considering collaborating with Zimbra:
http://www.zimbra.com/
I found this interesting:
<http://www.zimbra.com/forums/developers/37811-openoffice-org-integration-google-docs-zoho.html>
The guy was using "SuSE build of OOo 3.2".

I generally use SeaMonkey, but I've been experimenting with Zimbra
Desktop lately & it seems to be an interesting alternative w/calendar,
Document, Briefcase, etc. And it's open source:
http://www.zimbra.com/about/
albeit with their own ZPL:
http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/os-downloads.html

A tie-in with LibO & Zimbra would be about as close as MS Outlook/Office
(I'm not referring to Outlook Express) with a multiplatform environment.





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