[Leaplist] MS Office vs. OpenOffice -- Guys, get your *FACTS* straight (and stop marketing for Microsoft) ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Austin Denyer (Ozz) wrote:
> I tried Evolution for quite some time, and gave up on it.  Memory usage
> grew exponentially with message size.  I had a web server log e-mailed
> to me that took forever to load and almost crashed my workstation due to
> memory usage - and my box had 2 gigs of RAM and 4 gigs of swap!

Repeat after me ...
  1.  Evolution is *NOT* an MUA or merely an "e-mail client."
  2.  I will remember the *CONTEXT* the BS was talking under.

Evolution is a collaboration tool for enterprises, *NOT* a MUA/e-mail client.

> The same e-mail in Thunderbird opens in seconds, with relatively little
> memory overhead.  Personally, I still prefer Sylpheed...

Repeat #1 above.  ;->
Repeat #2 above.  ;->

> But then again, I'm not aware of any way to connect either of them to
> Exchange.  For that, you do need Evolution...

Repeat this as well ...
  3.  Evolution does *MORE* than just connect to Exchange

Evolution is a collaboration tool for enterprises, and sports *MORE*
than merely offering an "Exchange connector."

> Trivia: how many of you remember Lotus Improv?  A new concept of
> spreadsheet design that was so way ahead of it's time that no-one
> appreciated it's power...

Trivia:  What did Lotus replace it's Ami Pro desktop publishing (DTP)
-- the very first WYSIWYG documentation application for Windows (and
not anything from Microsoft) -- application with?  What it a DTP or
something else?  How bad did it bomb?  And why?

-- Bryan

P.S.  A lot of Improv functions made it into 1-2-3 release 4.  Between
the Ami Pro DTP and 1-2-3 r4 (which so many people never saw
in-action), it was utter bliss.