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Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 12, 2004 0:30 UTC (Wed) by robla (subscriber, #424)
In reply to: Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector by einstein
Parent article: Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

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


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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.

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