[NBLUG/talk] Open Office

[Dave Rohling]

Mostly, the calendar and email. I know of many email clients, but I'd like
something very similar to Outlook for my users. And preferrably something
that would sync with PDAs.

- Dave 

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Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 6:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Open Office


Dave, 
What features are you using in Outlook? If just email, then of course there 
are many options. Group calendaring: there are some terrific open source web

based solutions. Certain of the more esoteric Exchange functions are not 
available *yet* without purchasing a proprietary replacement for the
Exchange 
Server (Samsung has one, it used to be free from HP before they sold it, but

MS poisoned the well because the system worked too well and was threatening 
Exchange as much as two+ years ago) and there is a new fully GPL'd package 
that is still in it's early stages called -- I believe -- Chandler. You can 
probably find it on sourceforge. 
 
If you're not using the esoteric features of group ware within an exchagne 
server, pretty much all the functionality you could want is already
available 
in individual packages with higher reliability and data access. 
 
Robert Hayes 
 
Quoting Dave Rohling <dave at cloverstornetta.com>: 
 
> Ok, if I were to deploy Open Office for Windows and replace Microsoft
> Office, I'm left without an Outlook replacement. Any open-source 
> suggestions? I really like Evolution on Linux, but what can I do on a 
> Windows PC? 
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> Thanks,
>  
> Dave Rohling
> Network Administrator 
> Clover Stornetta Farms, Inc. 
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>  
 
 
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