Aethera/Windows alternative to Outlook

[Michael Harlaut]

Jon Bendtsen <jon at kollegiegaarden.dk wrote:

> have you any thoughts here?
> porting of kontact to pure QT? and thus being able to run on windows?
> but also mac?
> Aethera? there is some work in progress, why not use that?

I totally agree.

Do not forget that the calendar part of Aethera is a full porting of 
Korganizer to Windows. A Mac OSX version will also be available soon.
(We evaluated the Kmail porting ... This is to difficult because it's 
too much linked to the KioSlave parts of KDE, and the goal is not to 
port KDE to Windows :p)

We (Atol C&D, my company) have decided to provide one full time 
developper and a dedicated team to put more efforts on Aethera.

- First (and again), this is a full Korganizer porting (synchronization 
with the 3.2 version in progress) : Do not forget : This is not a 
Korganizer/Kontact compatibility. This is Korganizer for Windows !
- Aethera is available for 3 platforms
- It is free software
- This is a really nice piece of code, and The Kompany has made a really 
nice work on this software : Modular and with a really powerfull core, 
wich give us fast development possibilities.

Yes, the mail part has to be improved : We work on it, and there are 
already very encouraging results (it's quite easy to add 
functionnalities, thanks again to the first developpers).

The next version of Aethera will be impressive I think :)

I'm currently writing a review (From the users and from the developper 
point of view), I think it will be available during the next week.

(For the impatient French speaking people, you can already see a PDF 
file that shows some Aethera related informations on http://www.atolcd.com/)

We have to provide Outlook compatibily for Kolab ... but I think an 
alternative is really important too.
Aethera can be.

> Mozilla's mailprogram and calendar?

Mozilla mail is really rich and a nice tool, but the calendar part is 
really poor. It needs a lot of work to make it really useable in a 
professionnal environment.
We tested it a lot (several months) before chosing the Aethera way, and 
there is some big performances issues when handling big calendars (with 
a lot of events). It can take 20 seconds to add one event !


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Michael Harlaut
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