RE: [HC Evolution] evolution(ary) focus

[Fernando Madruga <FMadruga ascoimbra pt>]

I agree with that! Importing mail from Personal Folders would be a major
feature and, for those that do not use personal folders with exchange, 
i.e., those that leave their mail in the Exchange Server, a tool for
migrating that mail into a unix box would certainly save TONS of work!
We, at my company, are considering the move to Linux, abandoning
MS NT Server + Exchange & MS NT Workstation + Office in favour of Linux.
We will be waiting for Evolution to get out, of course!

  Fernando Madruga

-----Original Message-----
From: Crispin Wellington [mailto:crispin iinet net au]
Sent: quarta-feira, 22 de Março de 2000 2:43
To: Chris Dent
Cc: evolution helixcode com
Subject: Re: [HC Evolution] evolution(ary) focus


Im in agreement with Chris on this. I live in Australia and work freelance
Linux/BSD coding, consulting, building systems, and a lot of companies who
are using NT are looking to migrate to a UNIX platform. Personally I think
Outlook sux. For those migrating away from NT, Evolution looks like it
will be a good move, but what is the point of painting the chicken coop,
when all the eggs have turned bad? Great, I've got this wicked Evolution
mail client on my hot new Linux box, but the Exchange Server keeps falling
over. Even better than Exchange server/client interoperability, how about
some Evolution GUI tools that make migrating a mail database from Exchange
to something else unix based, easier.

Just my 2c worth.

Crispin

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Chris Dent wrote:

> One thing, though, that has me concerned and has my attention is
> the amount of attention (both on the list and in the helixcode
> pages) Microsoft (especially Outlook) gets.
>
> I agree that in order for Evolution or any other "groupware"
> client to gain acceptance it needs to operate in the segment as
> clients like Outlook, and even talk to servers like Exchange.
> However I hope that can remain a secondary goal. Having dominance
> in a marketplace does not in any way indicate that a product is
> the best. 

In Australia VHS won, even though Beta kicks its ass.

> I hope that Evolution can focus primarily on the excellent core
> architecture as well as compliance with open standards like IMAP
> and its associates.
>
> And then as a secondary focus integration with other types of
> mail stores.