personal opinion.....

[radoeka]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:31:19PM +0200, Markus Heller wrote:
> Dear communtiy,
> 
> even though I know that I risk to start a major discussion, and even though I 
> fear that it won't help much...
> 
> In a number of discussions I heve come to the conviction that openpkg is the 
> main reason why kolab has already lost many opportunities. It will always 
> loose against egroupware where people can install and maintain it with 
> "apt-get upgrade" or with other package systems that allow online update.
> 
> openpkg is the central showstopper for kolab. 
> 
> This is because we have to get away from it. We need to be able to integrate 
> this wonderful piece of software in the traditional packaging and software 
> maintenance tools. Otherwise kolab will not be able to win an admin-user base 
> of a certain size, and in the end it will not be a successful piece of 
> software. 

Markus,

I hope you realize that efforts are under way to get kolab ported from
openpkg to what you discribe above.  See,
http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kolab2_linux_distribution_integration

The only thing that you can do to speed this up, is by helping.  What
distribution do you use?  But than again, at this moment not much can
be done, as everything has been set in motion to complete the port.
This does not include distro integration, that's up to you.

--
Richard