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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:00:45 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

E-mail will be the most significant factor governing the uptake of Linux
on the desktop, according to a new study.

The Desktop Linux Client Survey 2005, released this week by the Open
Source Development Labs, found that the lack of a powerful e-mail
application could hinder the adoption of Linux on the desktop.

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EMAIL you can always do on the web these days. I think it's more the
lack of user friendly packaging and compatibility with MS Office, etc.

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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:00:45 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

E-mail will be the most significant factor governing the uptake of Linux
on the desktop, according to a new study.

The Desktop Linux Client Survey 2005, released this week by the Open
Source Development Labs, found that the lack of a powerful e-mail
application could hinder the adoption of Linux on the desktop.

======================================

EMAIL you can always do on the web these days. I think it's more the
lack of user friendly packaging and compatibility with MS Office, etc.

E-mail is a general term now used for office productivity software. Which is
the combination of e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks and such. With today's
business world the ability to schedule meetings and such the need for the
integrated e-mail and calendar software is prime. Typically the interaction
between the vendor's products is poor if non-existent.

This issue is like the Intstant Messaging issue where the vendors don't want
to enable interactions with their competitiors products.

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On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 08:38:36 -0500, Bert Robbins wrote:


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:00:45 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

E-mail will be the most significant factor governing the uptake of Linux
on the desktop, according to a new study.

The Desktop Linux Client Survey 2005, released this week by the Open
Source Development Labs, found that the lack of a powerful e-mail
application could hinder the adoption of Linux on the desktop.

======================================

EMAIL you can always do on the web these days. I think it's more the
lack of user friendly packaging and compatibility with MS Office, etc.

E-mail is a general term now used for office productivity software. Which is
the combination of e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks and such. With today's
business world the ability to schedule meetings and such the need for the
integrated e-mail and calendar software is prime. Typically the interaction
between the vendor's products is poor if non-existent.


I can see why Linux doesn't have a large selection of this type of app.

Linux comes from the Unix world, where the trend is for many small,
dedicated applications that usually can be "linked" together. This way,
instead of getting one gynormous program that "does everything" (some the
way you want, some not!), you get many small apps, each one taylored to
your needs.

So, Linux has MANY email clients, MANY text editors, MANY schedulers, MANY
"contact" database apps, and so on. Choose the one you want for each
application.

AND, I suspect "email application" to a lot of businesses means "email
client that talks Microsoft Outlook servers", and true, Linux doesn't have
one of these.

Lloyd