[Gllug] Ximian Connector

[Xander D Harkness]

It would be used where I am as most of the Unix guys would not set up
outlook grabber to get their mail.  We also miss out on the scheduling
side.

I think that Ximian would have been much better to work with jabber.org
on an xml scheduling / IM system that would work cross platform.

At present some of the other UNIX guys are using Solaris mostly with
rdesktop here and there to access mail.

Cheers
Xander

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 11:44, Axel Segebrecht wrote:
> 
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/23164.html
> 
> Matthew mentioned this last night and I guess quite a few of
> us will have read it by now - so I will just take the opportunity
> to open the debate :)
> 
> IMHO this 'model' will fail! I don't believe that creating an add
> on to work with Exchange is needed anyway.
> 
> Friedman argued that it's mainly for companies that already made
> their minds up to use proprietary software. I wonder what the hell
> they will use Evolution for anyway when they run Exchange and Windoze?
> 
> > * he only customers who will buy Ximian Connector have already
> > decided on a proprietary environment.
> 
> Furthermore he says that he intends to make money from it - it's
> $70 a shot (whereas the a complete distro incl. Evolution on disk
> sells for just $30). I still don't get it why people would buy
> the Connector when it's "easier" to setup a Linux server and clients
> to handle all they want to do?
> 
> Or will we see Linux Desktops hooked to a Windows Server? (yak)
> 
> Axel
> http://axel.gardeneden.net/
> 
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