Re: [Evolution] Congrats to Ximian/OO developers + more ammo!

[Tristan Tarrant <tarrant_tristan emc com>]

For some reason, Microsoft has managed to convince the world that
groupware is everything that Outlook/Exchange provide. But that was just
a marketing ploy to get people away from Lotus Notes/Domino. Notes is so
much more than Outlook, even though its implementation is strange.
Creating something akin to Domino using open standards, with the ability
to plug-in a variety of scripting languages and having various Bonobo
components which can be integrated in Evolution would make me (and many
others) very happy.

Tristan


> > > > So, what is 'groupware'?
> > > >     * calendaring
> > > >     * email access
> > > >     ? newsgroup access
> > > >     * email alias/list management
> > > >     * shared file access (webdav?)
> > > >     * todo lists
> > > >     * project/progress tracking
> > > >     * address book(s)
> > >
> > >         * document management (in contrast to mere shared file access)
> > >       * workflow management
> > >       * knowledge databases
> > >       * telephony integration