From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Jun  6 17:59:42 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7098337B401
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Fri,  6 Jun 2003 17:59:42 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from thingy.apana.org.au (thingy.apana.org.au [203.12.237.66])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1825C43FAF
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Fri,  6 Jun 2003 17:59:41 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from fun@thingy.apana.org.au)
Received: from fun by thingy.apana.org.au with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 19OS3U-0002Vw-00
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 07 Jun 2003 10:59:36 +1000
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 10:59:36 +1000
From: 'David Gerard' <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
To: questions@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20030607005936.GR31266@thingy.apana.org.au>
References: <20030606221839.GO31266@thingy.apana.org.au>
	<000001c32c7b$e8777bd0$0200a8c0@crusty>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <000001c32c7b$e8777bd0$0200a8c0@crusty>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
Subject: Re: Selling FreeBSD
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 00:59:42 -0000

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.