Re: [Evolution] CALL FOR SPONSORSHIP: The Open Group Ware Project

[Lloyd Llewellyn <subscr001 twilight-systems com>]

> If some weirdo wanted to implement some components to store the data ni
> XML files, they could do that. The implementation will be completely
> seperated from the OGS definition.

Yes.

 
> I think we will be able to beat them at this game, because we are open.
> We are not limited on the various client implementations and server
> implementations that can take place. If you use Exchange Server, you
> must basicly use Outlook. If you use Notes server, your stuck with Notes
> client. When this OGS is in place, you could use "The phpGroupWare OGS
> Server" as your server and Evolution or OpenOffice as your client. At
> some point someone will build a better/faster OGS server, and the
> clients will be able to simply point to it without any change in their
> code.

That is the dream - let's not lose site of this.  This is what would
make OGS qualitatively different than any other typical GW
implementation.


> Agreed. And just about everything needs to be done in well definable
> layers, so that any layer can be replaced by better/specialized
> replacements.

Yes.