Re: [Fsfe-uk] Go OGo Go!

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:50, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:
>  
>
> > It looks like some excellent news .....
> > <http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=746582&listName=announce>
> > ....
> > "The OGo software provides document sharing capabilities for
> > OpenOffice.org documents and will enable users of MS Outlook
> > (97/2000/XP), Ximian Evolution, Mozilla Calendar, OOo Glow
> > (OpenOffice.org Groupware Project's client product), Apple's iCal and
> > other standards-based groupware clients to collaborate."
> >    
>
> I'm afraid I wouldn't be so positive - Outlook and Evolution can only be
> connected into it with a proprietary plugin (hopefully a free plugin
> will be developed for Evo, it could be possible). 
OGo is all about open standards so should be no problem for  either 
Ximian or Evolution hackers, I guess.
The licensing model also seems very favourable for a wider set of 
developers to jump in.

> I would suspect that W32 groupware software is still very much further
> advanced than any free software, 
Any specific details will be most helpful but there is a  perception 
factor too
...some people are conditioned to just 'drag and drop' (with that 
paperclip waiting to dance).

> and OGo has taken away some of the
> thunder (IMHO) from the Kolab software from the Kroupware project -
> which basically solves the same problems as OGo but in a more integrated
> manner, and allows a completely free solution (Kolab + KMail) on the
> desktop, whereas OGo doesn't 
...but it could be viewed as healthy competition within the free 
software community.
How the various distros (as out of box solution) or free software based 
companies (as network setup services)
implement these groupware solutions as  developments seems to be  the 
cruical part to me.

The differences are mainly along the lines of ...
OGo integrates with OpenOffice.org (OOo)
<http://groupware.openoffice.org/glow/>
The code is Java.....

Kroupware integrates with th excellent K Desktop Environment (possibly 
into Koffice itself).

OGo can already  integrate with individual  KDE client software like 
Korganiser though...

Further I have seen noises to get OOo/GTK is to  be integrated more in 
to the GNOME desktop more seemlessly as a complete suite.

> (only via a browser atm, unless I've
> misunderstood something).

The web interface/application  is also immensely powerful instead of 
being a temporary fix.
Does XUL support 'drag and drop'?

Best regards,

Ramanan