Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 10:59:36 +1000 From: 'David Gerard' <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Selling FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030607005936.GR31266@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <000001c32c7b$e8777bd0$0200a8c0@crusty> References: <20030606221839.GO31266@thingy.apana.org.au> <000001c32c7b$e8777bd0$0200a8c0@crusty>
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Jeff MacDonald (jeff@interchange.ca) [030607 08:35]: > >> I would question that. I just set my highly non-technical > >> wife up with > >> FreeBSD 4.8, KDE 3.1, Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (Linux binary) and > >> OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 (Linux binary, as mentioned on this > >> list ;-). It does > >> require an administrator to at least run the ports or packages, but > >> any office network will need an administrator. > >> The only thing still missing is a drop-in replacement for > >> Outlook. Other > >> than that, it's probably more usable than Windows, and a Windows user > >> should have no trouble. > Evolution is a pretty good drop in replacement for outlook. I heard somewhere (don't recall where) that the Ximian proprietary program that interfaces Evolution to an Exchange server is actually a screen scraper for Outlook Web Access. Sounds a little implausible to me (what about all the funky calendar functions?), but could be a start on an open-source tool of that function. - d.
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