Aethera/Windows alternative to Outlook

[Jon Bendtsen]

Den 9. apr 2004, kl. 9:30, skrev 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.

nice, if you need a tester, i'm ready


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

i hope so, because so far i have only been disapointed


> 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 !

i suppose that could be better if it wasnt one big file.



JonB