personal opinion.....

[Markus Heller]

Hi Richard and all,

> 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.

Thanks so much for your reply. I really love the kolab approach. Otherwise I 
would not have fought through all the betas and I would not have set up a 
number of "hot" and operational systems, including for myself. 

I use Debian, and friends and I would really like to help. We have had a 
number of discussions on how we could make maintainable debian packages out 
of the current system which would be suited for integration in a regular 
debian system. 

Friends and I also thought about writing a book on Kolab and we already had a 
contract from a publishing house on our table, but we hesitated because of 
the small chances that kolab will become THE most widely deployed groupware 
server. We have a considerable collection of topics, but that really made us 
stop for a while. 

I also see another drawback: There needs to be a CRM integration, possibly 
with a system such as lxoffice. Interestingly, they also have a groupware, 
which uses more or less exactly the same components as kolab. Of course, the 
groupware functions are far from being so good as those in kolab. But I 
really have some pain in my stomack when I see that everybody invents the 
wheel again and again, and the projects fail to cooperate....

But great to see the progress...!

Best wishes,
Markus