[OGo-Discuss] SoGO vs JOGO

[Tarjei Huse]

Hi,
Helge Hess wrote:
> On 22.04.2008, at 10:07, Tarjei Huse wrote:
>> Hi, I've been folowing OGO for some years now and I must say the last
>> years developments are looking very interesting.
>>
>> I am now right now planning to use Ogo or SoGo in a few different
>> settings and therefore I got some questions regarding which version to
>> use:
>>
>> The first thing is regarding the Thunderbird plugin. Will this plugin
>> work with the "normal" versions (and the new java based one) of OGO?
> 
> The GroupDAV ones should work with OGo too, minus bugs which might need
> a fix of course.
Ah! I didn't know of the SoGO integrator plugin[1] before you mentioned
it. Interesting stuff.

1. http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo_integrator.html

Thanks for clearing things up. I guess I will just have to test both
Sogo and OGo before I decide :)

regards,
Tarjei
>> Also, I am curious about the what are the release timelines for Sogo and
>> Jogo with regard to what features will come etc.
> 
> There are no specific release timelines, at least on my side development
> is mostly customer driven (not only projects directly related to OGo,
> but also such which produce enough revenue so that I can take time off
> to do work on OGo ;-)
> 
>> Is it possible to build a OGO server today using only java?
> 
> 
> No. And this will probably take a while, we currently use Java to build
> highly customized frontends to the OGo backend. Anyways, its the 'plan'
> to build a 'generic' frontend using Java as well.
> Eventually all services might be ported to Java, but the pressure is
> very low since the ObjC ones are working reasonably well.
> 
> Helge