Evil Ernie wrote:
> With a database driven email system you get EVERYTHING!!! You can share
> messages and folders and address books with anyone else on the system.
Not seeing how this needs a database.
> You can see when someone opened the email you sent.
Which we have now without databases and as anyone can tell you, aren't
worth spit.
> You can have an automatic notification when they open your email.
Ditto.
> With a bit more code you get shared calendars.
> A little bit more code and you can get more
> functionality out of those calendars.
You know, in the almost 10 years Exchange and Lookout! have been around I
have never once understood this fetish for calendar and email in one. I've
been in companies that use it and they are no more coordinated than companies
that don't. In fact I dare say they were less so because the Lookout!
fetishists presumed that the Lookout! avoiders (the sensible people, I call
that group) used Lookout! so didn't communicate clearly and effectively with
those people.
Quite frankly the whole shared calendar resource is better done in a web
application with email notifications. At least then it is the primary focus
and one, if coded to standards, is accessible by all instead of it being
shoehorned on the side of a sloppy email client which then must be shoehorned
into everyone's PC which has Windows shoehorned onto it.... and still leaves
out the non-PC people.
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