[Gllug] Puke - Berlin Bundestag will switch to Outlook and Exchange

[Richard Huxton]

Alain Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:06:44PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>>> They probably wanted... oh I don't know... shared calendaring that 
>>> actually works properly?
>> Or decent, shared contacts. Easy admin of the whole thing, web
>> interfaces and much more.
>>
>> Exchange is foul and I really hated working with it, but you have to
>> give it credit for being a pretty complete solution.
> 
> There are various OSS for this, with varing degrees of niceness.
> The common feature that they lack is the ability to seamlessly play with
> MS desktops (ie outlook) and FLOSS s/ware. This is a basic criteria in choice.

It goes a bit further than that even. Got a smart-phone or blackberry? 
Have a specialist package that wants to send emails? Got a custom 
VB/.NET app? They all get built + tested against Outlook.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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