Re: [SAGE] Pointers for developing needs assessment for enterprise messaging?

[Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net>]

At 02:37 PM 1/4/2002 -0500, Matthew Barr wrote:
>At the LISA conference,  I heard mention of a way that allowed a Unix system
>to emulate the major features of an Exchange server, such as calendaring, as
>well as the obvious email component.  Does anyone have any more detailed
>information about this?

I think the major resistance most people have to moving away from Exchange 
is the shared folders and calendar feature. Obviously, the shared folders 
feature isn't really all that interesting or difficult to replace, but the 
shared calendar might be. At least, having it as well integrated into the 
PIM as it is with Exchange and Outlook.

Why doesn't this service exist in the UNIX space? There are web 
applications to do this, but I will be the first to say it's nice to have 
all of your contacts and calendars integrated into one piece of software. 
We have IMAP which gives us server-side storage, but where is the shared 
calendar component? Has there been any work on this? It seems that with 
this one component there would be a real competitor to Exchange/Outlook in 
terms of information management for the desktop.

Regards, Dustin

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