David McMillan wrote:
My employer's IT dept, for reasons known only to them, is completely M$-centric, top to bottom -- *everything* is Windows Something, from the top servers to the lowest clients. The only things *not* M$ are a handful of Sun graphics workstations, and occaisionally me. The entire company is based around Outlook, using all the groupware capabilities -- public calenders, centrally administrated address book on the Exchange server, etc. Right now, my only access to my company email is via the Outlook Webmail server, because Outlook wouldn't coexist peacefully with nonstandard software I *had* to have (IT supports cookie-cutter, centrally administrated desktops -- I do field service of industrial equipment with a laptop), and IT "will not support email clients other than Outlook." I'm up for a new laptop soon, and my current plan is to leave IT's Windows setup alone so I can actually use the intranet when needed, and set up a dual-boot with SuSE (probably 9.2 or 9.3 Pro) so I can actually do my job. But, it would be nice if I could get at my email when I'm running SuSE w/o rebooting into WXP, and even nicer if I could use all those little 'extras' that the Outlook users have access to. So, does anyone know a good, proven Open-Source alternative to Outlook that can do what Outlook does?
What about Ximian Evolution with exchange connector? It is available from Novell Suse. Art