Re: RDi and Linux

Some of these things may seem silly, but Outlook is probably the most used
application in my toolbelt and if I am not efficient in it I will drown in
unproductivity (sp). Note I have mostly tried Evolution on Ubuntu to meet
my needs, though I did try Thunderbird/Sunbird once.

- Ability to see other's calendars. This is important for scheduling sales
calls and other meetings.
- Ability to connect to an Exchange server calendar period. I don't believe
Sunbird can do this.
- Salesforce plugin that allows me to easily click on an email and add it to
CRM.
- GoToMeeting plugin that allows me to quickly create meetings and add them
to my calendar (I probably do about 10 to 15 meetings a week via GoToMeeting
for support and sales calls).
- Ease of pasting screen shots into an email (it seemed Evolution always
screwed it up).
- Outlook is less buggy than Evolution (Evolution would keep going to 100%
CPU usage upon creating a new email message in the latest version of Ubuntu
and I had to close and reopen to get rid of it - simply unacceptable)

There's more, but those are the ones I remember. Believe me, I am
desperately trying to go 100% linux, but Outlook just works really well for
me right now.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Aaron Bartell wrote:

Note that this would be a feature that would get people to kick the free
WDSC and go to the paid for RDi - I know it would for me.

Interesting point, Aaron. Whereas IBM is counting on deprecation in
2010 to move users, I think you may be right that support for Linux
might move a number of people before that date.

The two pieces of software I can't live without right now, that I also

don't

have a solid alternative to, are WDSC and Outlook.

Just curious: what in Outlook do you use that Thunderbird won't do? I
realize I'm not a power user, but as far as most things go (email,
filtering, and basic calendaring), Thunderbird works pretty well.

Joe
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