Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 22nd Jul 2006 21:15 UTC
Toby Richards wrote an opinion article for NewsForge, claiming that for him, Linux won't get mainstream until Evolution - or another capable Outlook-like client - gets optimized and offers 100% compatibility with Exchange. In the comments section of Newsforge readers offered more reasons as to why Linux is not mainstream, offering a view on their needs. My take: While for my personal, home usage of Linux my needs are different, I agree with Toby that companies won't switch their desktops if full Exchange compatibility isn't reached and if Evolution stops being the memory beast it currently is.
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2005-07-06
I agree, kontact and kolab are great applications, that could be potential Outlook/Exchange killers. The problem is that they currently don't run on windows.
At least that is a big problem for kontact. Most companies would like to have a uniform E-mail/Calendaring structure regardless of platform. If you run different tools on different platforms you are bound to get in trouble as upgrades may lead to incompatibilities, as they most likely have different release schedueles if they comes from different venders.
Perhaps the situation will change once KDE4 is out. It will use QT4 that is available for windows under the GPL. This will make it much easier to port KDE apps to windows.
Another problem with Kontact, is that it in most distros doesn't support S/MIME by default. S/MIME is much more common in busines than e.g. gpg, so not having that might be a showstopper.