We have to kill the cancer, not use nicotine patches
Couple of weeks ago Filip pointed us again to OpenChange on our internal mailinglist.
As after 42 seconds their website I wasn't sure if they were working on a client or a server
application. I asked him for more
Here's his (partial) reply
no, serieously, they are essentially working on reverse engineering the MAPI
protocol and providing proof-of-concept code & libraries, so that
any other project (evolution, all oss mail server projects, ...) can offer
exchange & outlook compatibility.wrt zimbra, ... all fine&dandy and all that, but completely useless in
99% of corporate
environments as you need to have something with calendering/colaboration
features that is completely compatible with a out-of-the box outlook client.
I fully agree with him regarding to converting braindead people who
don't realise the fact that Outlook is their major reason for Viri this
is a good step.
I however hope to be able to convince people that they should give up
their old habits because they are causing them nothing but problems.
It's like getting people to stop smoking, yes smoking kills, everybody
knows it but still people continue to do so at the cost of the
community and the governement.
Sometimes people try to stop and use patches , for me OpenChange is
such a patch , I don't get to smell their smoke anymore.. but they are
still killing themselves softly.
So Zimbra, OpenXchange, and recently also the freed Scalix are better alternatives !