personal opinion.....

[Joe Auty]

It sounds like the issue here, from a differing perspective, might be  
something along the lines of:

1) dedicated "black box" for Kolab  vs.
2) Kolab coexisting on a machine that isn't dedicated to Kolab, and  
already running various services (e.g. mail, Apache, etc.)

I'm wondering: why does this decision have to be either or? Why not  
work on a more modular Kolab that can be plugged into existing  
infrastructures while simultaneously maintaining the OpenPKG  
solution? I see great benefits to both approaches, and think that by  
working on two distributions Kolab would be catering to a larger set  
of needs.



On Oct 27, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Markus Heller wrote:

> 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
>
>
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