[dev] Fwd: Re: Google's Summer of Code - Interested in Search and CRM projects.

[Kevin Myer]

Quoting Marko Djukic <mdjukic at horde.org>:

> so it would be good to be able to choose to have no portal, a slim 
> portal just
> to hop on to other apps or a really beefed up portal where you could do a lot
> of the work on the one page. eg. i tend to open up tabs for at least three
> apps, imp, kronolith and nag. if i could work from one page without having to
> jump from tab to tab, that would be nice.

 From our real-life use of Horde in our organization (and potential uses in our
organization), and from our offering it as a service to school 
districts, those
three portal modes would be dynamite, and are ultimiately what we are seeking,
because we have users that fit into each of the three modes.

Horde becomes an application specific framework (no portal, i.e. just 
webmail),
a generalized web-based supplementary application (mobile or remote users -
Horde install with slim portal, providing out-of-office functionality for
in-house systems), or a full-blown web application, that integrates 
potentially
multiple disparate systems, even better than it currently does.

You can do the first and the second right now, with some customization.  The
latter relies on that tighter integration and coupling of applications 
that was
alluded to in the SOC suggested project.

Couple that with a consistent user interface, across all applications, and you
are doing things on the web, using standards, that couldn't be done before.

Kevin
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Kevin M. Myer
Senior Systems Administrator
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13  http://www.iu13.org