Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] RE: [why schools don't adoptOSS]]]

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

I have been using Eveolution as my monthly email dump (I use Pine as my
normal reader, on the mail server itself), and have been quite hapy with
it.  Rather stable now, and nice interface if you are at all familiar
with Outlook.

As far as teacher email goes, I would strongly recomend a web based
solution, either TWIG, or similar.  The biggest item I can see for the
educational area is to avoid tying to the desktop in any way shape or
form.  Now of course Evolution would work with NFS home directories rather
well, but it does not work from home, or from the airport, or from the
next school district.

		Harry

 On 27 Nov 2001, Stefan Ekman wrote:

> tis 2001-11-27 klockan 17.58 skrev Doug Loss:
>
> > I'll go out on a limb and suggest StarOffice as a good solution.  I've
> > never used Outlook or MS Echange though, so I can't make an honest
> > assessment.  The nice thing about StarOffice though, is that it's
> > available for Windows as well as Linux.  This leads to another strategy
> > for getting Linux into the schools - introduce StarOffice first, and
> > switch over to Linux later.
>
> The only problem is that the 6.0beta of Staroffice doesn't contain any
> calendar anymore. I guess that the calendar is gone as I can't find
> anything about it on the staroffice site and the openoffice site. An
> alternative calendar/email/groupware suite almost looking as Outlook is
> Evoluton from Ximian (www.ximian.org). It can even import files from
> Outlook.
>
> /Stefan
>

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