Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] RE: [why schools don't adoptOSS]]]

[Michael Hall <admin@openlearningcommunity.org>]

Squirrel Mail is a great web-based email program (open source, PHP)

www.squirrelmail.org (I think)

Michael Hall

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Harry McGregor wrote:

> I have been using Eveolution as my monthly email dump (I use Pine as my
> normal reader, on the mail server itself), and have been quite hapy with
> it.  Rather stable now, and nice interface if you are at all familiar
> with Outlook.
> 
> As far as teacher email goes, I would strongly recomend a web based
> solution, either TWIG, or similar.  The biggest item I can see for the
> educational area is to avoid tying to the desktop in any way shape or
> form.  Now of course Evolution would work with NFS home directories rather
> well, but it does not work from home, or from the airport, or from the
> next school district.
> 
> 		Harry
> 
>  On 27 Nov 2001, Stefan Ekman wrote:
> 
> > tis 2001-11-27 klockan 17.58 skrev Doug Loss:
> >
> > > I'll go out on a limb and suggest StarOffice as a good solution.  I've
> > > never used Outlook or MS Echange though, so I can't make an honest
> > > assessment.  The nice thing about StarOffice though, is that it's
> > > available for Windows as well as Linux.  This leads to another strategy
> > > for getting Linux into the schools - introduce StarOffice first, and
> > > switch over to Linux later.
> >
> > The only problem is that the 6.0beta of Staroffice doesn't contain any
> > calendar anymore. I guess that the calendar is gone as I can't find
> > anything about it on the staroffice site and the openoffice site. An
> > alternative calendar/email/groupware suite almost looking as Outlook is
> > Evoluton from Ximian (www.ximian.org). It can even import files from
> > Outlook.
> >
> > /Stefan
> >
> 
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