Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Re: Evolution-Connector W/ Exchange 2007]

[Shawn Badger <sbadger cskauto com>]

Just help support your claim of needing the Exchange connector. I could
not run Linux on my desktop without it. If I can't do e-mail in Linux
(with Exchange) then I have to downgrade back to Windows.


On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 07:23 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Veerapuram Varadhan <vvaradhan novell com> wrote:
> > > It would be ideal if it could bypass OWA and just access the MAPI
> > > interface.  Maybe the Openchange MAPI libs will help to achieve this.
> > >
> > > http://www.openchange.org/
> > That is definitely the future direction of Evolution-exchange.  We will
> > be evaluating this in couple of weeks and update go-evolution.org with
> > the same.
> >
> > V. Varadhan
>
>
> so using the open-exchange lib is now the direction of the eds
> project? Is this a new direction (ie you just heard about it, and
> think it's a good idea)? Or, was it a strategic decision taken by the
> entire team some time ago, and just in the next couple weeks your time
> has cleared to get started on it?
>
> Frankly I don't see much commitment here to get this done ... why is
> that? I am not criticising you in this Varadhan ... but rather
> wondering out loud why for so long this project has had such little
> commitment of resources?
>
> Perhaps not enough people within Novell/Gnome really "get" just how
> badly the evo exchange connection is required in order to get traction
> with a linux desktop?
>
> At any rate -- to me, it would be very good if, when installing evo,
> if I could select from amongst the various "connector" styles. I would
> like to see as menu options "traditional evo connector" and brutus
> connector (yes, which will assume the process is installed out there
> somewhere).
>
> Hopefully this open exchange lib will provide so traction, quickly too
> .... it is ridiculous that I have to have a windows vm and Outlook in
> order to view a shared calendar or function even reasonably well with
> exchange.
>
> I've said it before, and can only re-enforce the message ... right now
> it is a deal breaker for wider corp adoption of linux desktop. Please
> get some resources on it and make it a PRIORITY.
>
> Peter
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