[OGo-Users] OGO - Kontact Integration

[Chris H]

On Monday 26 November 2007 04:24:46 pm Helge Hess wrote:

> We'll see what comes out of the new "MailCo", IMHO it should go into
> the full-Outlook-replacement direction (lovely).

Well Im not expecting much and personally I dont have the time to wait. What 
is interesting in the realease announcement is the verbage used, " email and 
communications areas" Thats standard language for integration with a number 
of protocals, and its not what Im looking for. My spec reads as follows:

1. Standard linux based PIM: email, calender, contacts, todo list. Notes and 
journal are nice but not required. Workflow is far more important to me then 
the latter two. 

2. Able to sync my laptop to a server and update and sync remotely as well as 
sync workstation with laptop or server. All three need to be updated with the 
same information. 

3. Able to sync, calendar, contacts, and todos to my mobile.

Lets see, Ive been on linux now since the late 90's and I still cant get this 
combo to work in a reliable manner. Can ya feel da pain..:) 
 
> Anyways, I guess TB + Lightning + the SOGo extensions are quite
> reasonable. Well, and if you want to target Windows, its the only
> real (FOSS) option currently (IMHO).

Not so, Big debate in the KDE community was whether to release a windos 
version and with qt4 and KDE4 this will be the first release. 

> IMHO it looks better than ever because we have the TB/Lightning
> extensions, and they are actively maintained.
> Some thing on MacOS. With iCal supporting CalDAV we are closer than
> ever with getting reasonable client support.

Closer then ever is like telling a drownding sailor, only a few more miles to 
shore lad. And I am going sailing next year so I had hoped to have all this 
sorted by then. :(

> Evolution and Kontact would be great, but in the real world they
> a) are not *that* relevant

disagree completely but thats just me. 

> b) have their "primary" backends (Kolab for KDE and Groupwise for Evo)

Kolab is just OK and Groupwise is excellent, expensive, a bugger to learn and  
maintain and invloves support contracts with Novel. Its not a small business 
option even though they like to tell and sell it as so. 

Larger corporations are on Outlook with either Sun, Oracle, Novel or MS 
backends. Interestingly enough Samsung has a very decent backend and its sold 
in the States through a licensing agreement as Scalix. There must be more to 
this as they are now offering an opensource version as well and partnered 
with Xandros. (just checked the site again after being away from it for a 
year or two) 

But what about simple end users on linux? 

> Greets,
>    Helge
>
> PS: of course there is always a place for real OGo like native
> clients, say the Consonance thing of Adam :-)

And that is where a scratch meets an itch. Ya gotta love opensource software 
and the talent that is invested in such efforts, both at the server end and 
the front end. Best of luck. 

Best regards

/ch