Selling FreeBSD

['David Gerard']

Jeff MacDonald (jeff at interchange.ca) [030607 08:35]:

> >> I would question that. I just set my highly non-technical 
> >> wife up with
> >> FreeBSD 4.8, KDE 3.1, Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (Linux binary) and
> >> OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 (Linux binary, as mentioned on this 
> >> list ;-). It does
> >> require an administrator to at least run the ports or packages, but
> >> any office network will need an administrator.
> >> The only thing still missing is a drop-in replacement for 
> >> Outlook. Other
> >> than that, it's probably more usable than Windows, and a Windows user
> >> should have no trouble.

> Evolution is a pretty good drop in replacement for outlook.
 

I heard somewhere (don't recall where) that the Ximian proprietary program
that interfaces Evolution to an Exchange server is actually a screen
scraper for Outlook Web Access. Sounds a little implausible to me (what
about all the funky calendar functions?), but could be a start on an
open-source tool of that function.


- d.