Re: [Evolution] Competing with Microsoft

["Peter Van Lone" <petervl gmail com>]

On Jan 17, 2008 2:07 PM, Rob Cambra <rcambra amesbury com> wrote:
> People sitting at desks in real companies want and demand collaboration tools such as Exchange, Lotus 
> Domino, GroupWize, etc.  Evo better be the client side equivalent for open source and be rock solid in 
> those environments or it goes nowhere.  What's the point if it's just for home users and enthusiasts?

exactly right.

EVO appears to be fine for individual users ... but in a
corp/groupware environment, it's (poor) support of Exchange makes it a
non-starter. I know that many posters to this list express the
sentiment that they "resent the time EVO developers have to spend on
Exchange support". Well, I guess it comes down to whether or not you
want linux in general and EVO in particular to have a shot a real
marketshare leadership ...

I do wan that. I want to be able, sometime soon if possible, do a
presentation for a corp customer where I can legitimately say "you can
move to a linux desktop, and your users lose nothing, and you IT dept
can easily manage everything at least as well as you do now".

Linux and EVO are a LONG way from that, currently

Peter