Re: [Evolution] scheduling resources with the exchange connector

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 19:55 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 9/11/06, Jules Colding <colding omesc com> wrote:
>
> > It is on mine. It is actually fairly close to the top. What are your
> > deadline here?
>
> Jules,
>
> I guess I did not really realize until now that you must be the magic
> behind Brutus, yes?

Yes, I am.


> Both the server and b-e?

Yes, both.


> Have you had discussions with the core Evo developers about bringing
> Brutus into the evo project officially?

No. I wish they would take a look at it, but they seem to ignore it
completely :-(


> Are you and they working on similar, but parallel, tracks?

evolution-brutus and evolution-exchange are certainly similar in purpose
but they are vastly different tech-wise. See e.g. this blog from Terry
Myerson, General Manager for the Exchange Server division at Microsoft:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2005/09/15/410941.aspx

The short story is that WebDAV is living on borrowed time. It will most
likely go away after E12. Not so with MAPI.


> I wish that I had coding skills, I would jump in here and help,
> because in my estimation the exchange connector is ... not good
> enough.

Testing and using evolution-brutus is equally important. 


> thanx for your work, I am looking forward to having a chance to try
> the system out. Do you know of anyone that has built a SUSE package
> yet?

I do intent to package for SUSE too, but I haven't yet got the time to
do it. One of my users have merely used the FC5 RPMs on SUSE and are
saying that it works flawlessly. 


Best regards,
  jules