[Kde-pim] Thank you, akonadi, nepomuk, kolab and kde-pim

[Del]

Just want to share my gratitude towards all developers and others who have 
helped out. I have mulitple IMAP accounts, including a Kolab account with full 
groupware functionality. I have used kde-pim daily for years and never lost an 
appointment or a mail, no matter how bleeding edge my testing has been. Sure, 
Akonadi had a rocky start, but I was not caught by surprise knowing that I 
willingly participated in the first batch of users. My only regret is that I 
did not have more time to help out during the transition.

I have updated my main machines to 4.8.2, and I am really impressed with how 
slick and performant kde-pim has become since the rocky start last summer. In 
my book it has now surpassed the old 4.4 in usefulness. Just in time for this 
years new stable distributions, a fantastic achievement. I really enjoy the 
many features, and see how akonadi already has enabled numerous interfaces for 
kde-pim (e.g., google and exchange). I have one mail account depending on 
Exchange, and really look forward to using kde-pim also for that purpose, in 
which case a high performing database and a solid indexing service will come 
handy.

I have longed to see a free alternative for enterprise grade groupware 
functionality for a really long time. Thanks to kde-pim, we finally have a 
client. It is a fantastic achievement in which I hope everybody feels proud. 
We are also getting there on the server side with Kolab, another great 
achievement. Unfortunately, a lot of people do not see the big picture. Please 
keep up the good work, we need it so dearly.

Thank you,
Del

On Thursday, April 12, 2012 11:32:33 AM Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
> On Thursday 12 April 2012 18.49:34 Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > Oddly enough I have all those things - Multiple accounts,
> > calendars,address
> > book all on line. My Android Phone and Thunderbird interop with them just
> > fine. Funny how an ancient legacy app like thunderbird works so well with
> > that stuff.
> 
> ....providing only a small subset of the functionality of KDE PIM or
> Outlook, however, which was precisely the point.
> 
> Thunderbird/Lightning provides what could be called "groupware light".
> 
> If that subset is enough for you, fine.
> 
> But in many cases, especially where professional use cases are concerned, it
> is not. And yes, Thunderbird is going to have major difficulties matching
> the functional depth of KDE PIM with its current architecture. Not to
> mention it is unlikely to be able to adapt to multiple form factors in the
> same way that Kontact Touch can provide.
> 
> So yes, you could also say that your little Falcon [1] has no problems
> bringing you from airport one to airport two and is therefore far superior
> to the A380 [2] which is totally overdesigned. But then, while much more
> complex, and technologically challenging and with setbacks and problems
> along the path, the A380 is somewhat in a different league.
> 
> Best regards,
> Georg
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheibe_Falke
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A380
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