It meshes better with GNOME, and it has exchange 2000/2003 connectors with current versions, 2007 very soon. Theoretically it uses less resources since it shares GNOME components, and I find it to be more accessible from a business-minded workflow, as the contacts, calendar and memos are better integrated. Google support (webcal) is another perk. I argue the opposite, why Thunderbird? No major player Linux or otherwise bundles Thunderbird or ticks it by default if the user is using GNOME. Thunderbird isn't like Firefox where there's an immediate dependence on rendering through gecko, or particular font needs, it's e-mail, and e-mail doesn't depend on all the whiz bang things like a browser does. I find Thunderbird to be redundant, and a waste of space because it doubles the library requirements as most Mozilla programs are self-contained for management reasons, while I can still argue there's nothing wrong with a client sharing GNOME resources since I've never seen any installation of Evolution fail outright because of upgrades and the like.
The audience could still be those who have migrated their desktops to Linux and are using Evolution, Zimbra and Exchange to migrate, but are apt to try OpenSolaris as well granted it's capable. Thunderbird has no commercial acceptance. I use Thunderbird on Windows, but as is with most Mozilla technology, Windows support is a front-most thought in their development process, while Evolution's bread and butter through the years has been GTK+ on UNIX-like systems, and I find it to compliment the environment just as some users on Windows are apt to prefer Outlook over Thunderbird due to how the program operates. Same can be said about those who prefer Cocoa over Carbon, Safari over Firefox on Mac OS X. What fits best? What is less redundant? What is more capable and fits a wide audience? What about licensing? What about cost and business sustainability? Thunderbird ranks under in most categories, though it is definitively acceptable for all home users, Sun also has a big investment in business adoption. James On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:57 +0100, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 9 Aug 2008, at 02:58, Harry Lu wrote: > > > I would say it is a design dependency. Evolution depends on them to do > > Addressbook/Calendar sync with Palm devices. If you really want to > > remove sth. from Evolution packages, I would suggest you to remove > > SUNWevolution-jescs and SUNWevolution-exchange. They are Evolution > > connectors to our Sun Calendar server and MS exchange server. > > Is there a good reason for including Evolution (and these dependent > packages) in the first place? > > Thunderbird fills the role of a POP/IMAP/SMTP client, and has plugins > for talking to various calendar servers. > > I don't think Thunderbird has native (ie non-IMAP) Exchange support, > but maybe Exchange users aren't really a target for OpenSolaris anyway. > > Cheers, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
