A great example of the final push that OSS has to do to get traction in the enterprise desktop and be taken seriously.
The individual pieces - the applications, the kernel, the UI - had
gotten a lot better, of course, since 1998, but there were still pieces
that lacked support for the new features and new functionality in
Exchange. If you don't have the ability to do everything Exchange
supports, you can't function - in our corporate environment, anyway - I
don't know if you could function in Dell's corporate environment or
anybody else's, with a pure Linux system. Microsoft seems to be the big
player there.
Openoffice was a great step. Next step -- exchange integration. Proper, full, exchange integration.
(A side note: Outlook Web Access works great in the fox, and therefore you can use it on Linux).
http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2007/01/ten_years_of_pushing_for_linux.html
