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Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 12, 2004 0:01 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
In reply to: Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector by elanthis
Parent article: Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

elanthis wrote:

"Because doing things "for linux" isn't the purpose of either Free
Software or Open Source, Einstein"

Somehow, I can't help but think that for a major linux vendor, taking
care of their own customers would be a higher priority than, say, making
life better for microsoft customers.

Is it just me?

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Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 12, 2004 0:30 UTC (Wed) by robla (subscriber, #424) [Link]

Novell has on the order of $1 billion in annual revenue. I'm sure most of their present customers run Windows on the desktop.

Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 12, 2004 3:07 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

100% of novell's ximian evolution using customers run linux. I applaud their decision to focus on their own customers by enhancing evolution's capabilities - not to say there won't eventually be fun toys for the windoze crowd, I just don't see that being a big priority for them.

Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 12, 2004 6:52 UTC (Wed) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

What, no BSD?

Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 12, 2004 7:02 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

piman says " What, no BSD?"

I should have said "100% unix type OSes", OK, bsd (and solaris?) have some share of that, but it's mostly linux. Does bsd running it in linux emulation count? I don't know, but that's an excellent question.

One certainty is that suse/ximian (now novell) is in the linux business.

What no BSD ?

Posted May 12, 2004 12:25 UTC (Wed) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link]

If you want a BSD port then download the source, compile, debug (to cover minor differences in system calls and headers etc ?) and develop a compatible patch which can go into the mainstream. That's one of the benefits of free software.

Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted Jun 22, 2004 16:20 UTC (Tue) by dagwud (guest, #22506) [Link]

Einstein wrote:

"Somehow, I can't help but think that for a major linux vendor, taking
care of their own customers would be a higher priority than, say, making
life better for microsoft customers. "

What about all of "their own customers" who use Groupwise? Evoluation 2.0 is going to support Groupwise. This gives Windows users an alternative to the standard Groupwise client. Given that I don't like the standard Groupwise client, I see this as a good thing.