Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 02, 2006 02:10 PM
This comment is about replacing Outlook in an office... I work at a non-profit where we are migrating to a Linux terminal server.
Sync between a smartphone and a PIM is lacking. For example, SyncML (which would make over the Internet syncing nice) is poorly supported. MultiSync is dead. OpenSync and SyncEvolution are immature and have no GUIs.
Also, Palm Pilot sync (not using SyncML) over a network (required in a terminal server environment) does not work with current GUI sync tools (and there's a few of them) because of bugs---not because of missing features.
Also, there's no lightweight way (without setting up some big, heavy Exchange replacement) to setup a shared (multi-writer) calendar. WebDAV seems to allow writers to clobber each other's changes, but CalDAV is not available in Korganizer and only "basically" supported in Mozilla. Then, Korganizer and Evolution have various annoying bugs such as crashes, memory consumption, and spurious error messages. Also, Chandler and Mozilla Calendar are still alpha, and though both have commercial support, progress is slow. (Did you know Sun is sponsering Mozilla Calendar?)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 02, 2006 02:10 PMSync between a smartphone and a PIM is lacking. For example, SyncML (which would make over the Internet syncing nice) is poorly supported. MultiSync is dead. OpenSync and SyncEvolution are immature and have no GUIs.
Also, Palm Pilot sync (not using SyncML) over a network (required in a terminal server environment) does not work with current GUI sync tools (and there's a few of them) because of bugs---not because of missing features.
Also, there's no lightweight way (without setting up some big, heavy Exchange replacement) to setup a shared (multi-writer) calendar. WebDAV seems to allow writers to clobber each other's changes, but CalDAV is not available in Korganizer and only "basically" supported in Mozilla. Then, Korganizer and Evolution have various annoying bugs such as crashes, memory consumption, and spurious error messages. Also, Chandler and Mozilla Calendar are still alpha, and though both have commercial support, progress is slow. (Did you know Sun is sponsering Mozilla Calendar?)
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