Apparently, OpenOffice 3.0 is intent on picking a fight with Microsoft Outlook. Bonne chance, mes amis. I don't mean to imply that it can't be done, but am rather suggesting that this is not the right way to go about it. Zimbra, sure. Or Mozilla's Thunderbird (standalone), sure. But bundled into OpenOffice? I'm not seeing it.
This arises from a presentation delivered earlier this year at the OpenOffice conference:
...[O]ne thing that really caught my attention was [a] reference to including a Personal Information Manager (PIM) [in OpenOffice]. More specifically the presentation mentions bundling Thunderbird with their Office Suite, and refers to it as an "Outlook replacement."
Bundling a runner-up PIM/email suite with a runner-up Office replacement? Not likely. Disruption is the way to go, and the combination is not disruptive.
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