[Korganizer-devel] [Bug 68345] KOrganizer ignores timezone when importing iCalendar events

J.Becker jamie at jamiebecker.com
Mon Feb 19 20:10:21 CET 2007


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------- Additional Comments From jamie jamiebecker com  2007-02-19 20:10 -------
THE PROBLEM WITH DROPPING THE EXCHANGE PLUGIN

Dropping support for the Exchange plugin will mean that Kontact will become useless for most enterprise migrations: the sad (very, very sad) fact is that most enterprise messaging infrastructures are based around Exchange and since Exchange can be accessed with IMAP and POP3, meeting invites are the last major piece. In fact, at a major Big Three automaker, lack of compatibility with Microsoft Exchange (Evolution has a lot of problems in this area, too: it's just a function of Exchange's very closed-box implementation) was the SINGLE defining problem that prevented them from doing a VERY large migration -- one of the world's largest -- to Linux on the desktop. We solved every other problem for them, except this one. (Because of years of legacy Exchange groupware applications built up across the enterprise, they were unwilling to switch to something better, like a Notes:Exchange bridge, or Notes entirely, or something like Openmail.)

The bottom line is that group/shared calendaring is a major weak spot in open source software, especially with regards to compatibility with Exchange. IF this ONE problem was solved, even us geeks working in enterprise environments can work around other Linux:windows interoperability problems like connections to MS PPTP networks, or requirement of IE for internal applications, or whatever. But not being able to address a shared calendar and find out when meetings are... this is a killer. OWA doesn't even work most of the time.

CALL TO ACTION

Are there any volunteers that can provide an Exchange server for testing to a select group of KDE developers? I'll take responsibility for getting this started if there is interest from the KDE development team. Alternatively, perhaps several people will pitch in to purchase an Exchange account on a hosted provider? Alternatively, perhaps we could convince a hosted provider to provide such an account for free to the KDE project in exchange for a "Proud Sponsor of KDE" banner?


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