Ben Rosenberg wrote:
I would venture to ask why no one mentions Lotus Notes...which has a server edition for Linux and I believe they just annouced a client for it as well. I have used Lotus Notes and it is capable of all you have mentioned an much more.
I was about to do so! We use Lotus notes and connect not only the 300+ workstations at our main office but all the workstations in our regional offices via a T1 line. With the advent of Domino 5 on Linux and the soon to be released clients I have no doubt that we will be switching our Notes to a Linux base. You are right. Lotus notes has far more power and flexibility than any similar product or combination of products in MS, and LN is much more stable than OutLook/Exchange, even though it runs on MS. Just think what it will be like on Linux later this year!
And as more and more people get engaged in the process there is a kind of critical mass phenomenon going on. I don't know of anything even close to that for Linux. Staroffice will do most of what M$ Office will do. There is even a calendar server I think. But AFAIK there is nothing even close to the collaborative possibilities of Outlook/Exchange.
I think you may be suprised. Not only can SO do the equivilent of DDE and can also do the equivilent of OLE2 - hot linking. If you assign each of your workstations IP addresses on an ethernet then SO can send and receive email, via the SO network server, just as if they were on the web, because the address database has field for emails addresses, called 'email' and one for URLs, called URL. It can contain IP addesses as well. When setting up email accounts you can set up multiple POP3 accounts using a VIM of either SMPT (internet mail), ccMail or LotusNotes. SO also has StarSchedule, which has events and tasks and can connect to the common data. Every thing you think is impressive in MS is there in SO on Linux as well. It was just AFAIK. Now you know. JLK -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/