will lack of corporate support kill off Linux?

[Carl Mayer]

If someone could get HP to sell OpenMail to a company interested in
making something more of it, that would be very helpful.  We used it
(with Outlook) for several months without any problems.  There were,
however, some obvious places where the MAPI interface needed some work
and the web client, well, for lack of a better word, sucked.

The server was strong but some serious client work needed to happen.
This would be VERY easy to do (we actually had a plan on how we were
going to write something for us to use before HP tanked it).
Unfortunately, it looks like HP bowed to M$ pressure and is going to let
it die.  
 
Carl Mayer
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-----Original Message-----
From: JD Runyan [mailto:jrunyan.lists at dms.nwcg.gov]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:19 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: will lack of corporate support kill off Linux?

The main issue that I see is that there needs to be a viable groupware
solution for Linux
to compete with Exchange Server.  I know that you can use multiple
products to achieve
this function, but there needs to be a single package that will give one
client to use,
and one server out of the box.  Once this is done, many corporations
would enjoy the
benefits of running Linux with NIS or DCE on the workstation, as long as
they can generate
documents that can be read by others with word.  This can be done with
Star Office or Word
Perfect.  I know that most companies only use Outlook for mail, and
calendar, but there is
the promise of doing more if they turn it on, and train the user
community.  I personally
would point people to the IPlanet Suite (aka Netscape) of servers.  They
have a calendar
server, directory server, mail server, and more to meet this need.  They
are also
developing installs to run on Linux, and certified on Red Hat systems.
If the LAN
management people can be swayed to check out these products they might
just switch.  If
they want a commercial server, then they can use Sun, HP, or IBM for the
server, and Linux
on the desktop running Netscape or Mozilla for the client.
--
JD

| Hi,
| Just a discussion ;), but have you been noticing (like I have) how
reluctant
| corporations are to use open source - even though they are willing to
buy
| any crap software at any price as long as it is "owned" by a company
so that
| someone is liable.
| For example at my workplace, linux is not used, not allowed. In my
earlier
| workplace, same story (we're talking the biggest phone companies in
the
| country).
| Will this sideline open source to academia and maybe kill it off
eventually?
| thanks,
| Anil Philip
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| disclaimer: my opinions are my own and do not reflect ....
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