[Kroupware] OpenGroupware release is a success for the Kroupware Project

[Arend van Beelen jr.]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:

>On Monday 14 July 2003 19:36, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
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>>On Monday 14 July 2003 18:12, Martin Konold wrote:
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>>>Am Montag, 14. Juli 2003 18:10 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
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>>>>I've seen other projects that got motivated
>>>>by Free Software solutions coming along to rethink
>>>>their proprietary model.
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>>>>In any case a win for the users.
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>>>Yes, but still the public relations work of kolab sucks :-(
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>>The actions that I've undertaken were fine,
>>you know why we act as we act.
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>To explain this a bit further:
>We've put the priority to quality control the software 
>and the collaboration with the community over PR.
>To have a stable and powerful product is the best PR somebody could have.
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Often /much/ PR is better than /good/ PR ;)

>Naturally we should start collecting more good experiences
>people have made with Kolab already. Anybody feels like
>contributing success stories? :)
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Well, this evening we took our Kolab server into use and installed 
Bynari InsightConnector on all our Windows workstations. All 12 of them. 
Our single Linux desktop moved from Outlook through CrossOver Office to 
KMail. Our mail is still running on an external server at this moment, 
but everything is synchronized on the Kolab server. I hope to replace 
our current mail server with Kolab tomorrow, but at least this week. Now 
we're still experiencing some tough trouble with KMail, and the Bynari 
InsightConnector has some bugs as well, but at least we're running.
If everything keeps working out well, I would be willing to write a 
success story about it. And since we're an IT company ourselves we are 
likely to push Kolab to our customers as well, if everything keeps going 
well.
What I'm excited about, is the upcoming Konsec Konnektor. It promises to 
resolve much of the irritating incompatibilities we now still experience 
between Outlook and KMail. If my boss agrees with it, I might also start 
hacking on KMail, in which case you shouldn't be surprised if I start 
sending in patches soon (btw, I need to devote some time again to the 
KDE Remote Desktop Client as well...).
Anyway, I'll let you know about further news. ;)

Greets,

Arend jr.

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