Re: [Evolution] CalDAV - any successes out there

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 09:02 -0600, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 2/16/07, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
> <snip>
> > While I understand the need for an Exchange client
> > under Linux, I can't help wondering how much this distracts developer
> > attention from the rest of Evo.
>
> > From the perspective of hoping to drive Linux desktop adoption into
> the corporate world, Linux must have an enterprise-ready groupware
> client that can replace Outlook with little or no loss of
> functionality.

There are several (Zimbra and Scalix come to mind), just that they
aren't free if you want interoperability with Exchange.

> Evolution has been touted as just that ... but thus far (IMHO) has
> fallen considerably short -- and is actually pretty weak. Its poor
> showing has cost linux 2 desktop rollouts that I personally was hoping
> to assist with. I'm certain that there are many more.

No doubt, which is why I said I understood the reasons for wanting this
funcionality, even though it's of no interest to me personally or in
fact to anyone I work with. I'm in a University and there are no
Exchange installations within shouting distance, but we still need good
groupware.

> There are *many* good/strong personal groupware offerings. I'd vote
> for please, distracting the developers from "the rest of EVO" -- so
> that we can finally get the product that we need to compete with
> Outlook/Exchange.

I'd vote for making Evo a strong candidate even without Exchange.
Chandler looked interesting for a while but seems to be seriously behind
schedule (a release is planned for April I think). Hula went nowhere
fast and has been abandoned. There seems to be something fundamentally
unsexy about groupware from a FOSS point-of-view. Maybe geeks don't use
calendars.

poc