I'm always amused when advocates for a certain technology proclaim a dominate player like Microsoft is soon to be replaced. Steven Vaughan-Nichols made such a proclamation about Linux taking over low cost PCs on www.linuxdesktop.com.
Full story »I'm always amused when advocates for a certain technology proclaim a dominate player like Microsoft is soon to be replaced. Steven Vaughan-Nichols made such a proclamation about Linux taking over low cost PCs on www.linuxdesktop.com.
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merc
16 years 42 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago
So let's sum up...
Hi,
I voted this article because I think people should read it. BUT, let's see the two main reasons why the migration shouldn't happen:
"But to work productively in an office setting, Linux desktop users must have calendaring that integrates with Exchange seamlessly. I've seen many a Linux desktop user get fouled up when countless Outlook clones mangle or lose appointments, mess up time zone conversions, or are just not able to open Outlook appointments."
Right. I suggest that these problems wouldn't happen if "Opening outlook appointments" didn't require reverse-engineering. You know, if the format was open.
Then the other one:
"Sharing documents is also critical and compatibility between Office apps and Office clones still isn't there yet. I have occasional trouble running Office 2007 in a work group full of Office 2003 users, so imagine the problems Linux Office clones run into. "
I actually have a solution for this: ODF.
Please.
Merc.