[Kolab-devel] Plug-in webpage?

[Stephan Buys]

Sounds good to me. Do you want me to whip up a page?

Should we rather call it Oultook MAPI providers?

Regards,
Stephan

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:52, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> I believe we should make the "About Kolab" page neutral
> regarding the plug-in. We should only state that their
> are plug-in options (some of them proprietary)
> and they should check the current status on the webpage.
>
> For the webpage I suggest that me make a plug-in page
> that lists the plug-ins and their current status.
>
> Bynari v1
> 	proprietary
> 	Tested by Kroupware project (Reference platform NT5SP6, OL2000)
> 	might not be available from Company anymore
>
> Bynari v2
> 	proprietary
> 	untested, users reported problems
>
> Konsec
> 	proprietary
> 	In development, alpha version was sighted at Cebit
>
> Toltec Connector
> 	proprietary
> 	In development, no website, proposed release end of Q3
>
> otlkcon
> 	Free Software
> 	in planing stage
>
> nonamed
> 	Free Software
> 	rumour state
>
> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:56, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 21:39, Joon Radley wrote:
> > > On the About Kolab page I found the following reference:
> > >
> > > "In addition Microsoft Windows users may use Outlook together with the
> > > proprietary Konsec Plugin as a fully functional Kolab client."
> >
> > I can only be happy that more people are working on plugins, and we of
> > course want to show this on the Kolab web pages. The Kolab project is not
> > associated with any of the plugin developments, so we will not prefer one
> > over the other.
> >
> > However, I would like to have the website state that the Bynari plugin
> > was actually tested and found to be working, by people who do not have an
> > economic interest in it. This is so far not the case for the two new
> > plugins, that noone so far have even seen.
> >
> > I think it would be very unprofessional to support two new plugins with
> > no trackrecord to the same level as the Bynari plugin.

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