[imp] "big three" webmail providers courting campus

[Kevin Konowalec]

On May 31, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

>
> To add my own take on this: it sort of depends what you mean by
> "communicate with exchange". Microsoft makes it very hard to talk to
> exchange from non-microsoft clients, and for good reason - it's their
> lock in feature. They put a lot of work into calendaring before other
> companies or the open source community had anything comparable, and
> that's why people use Exchange - I've never heard of anyone using it
> for the mail server, for example.
>
> On the other hand it's gotten a lot better at playing nicely with
> things like iTip, as has IMP. So maybe you could clarify what you'd
> need? Do you really need to take the administrators off of exchange in
> order to give the students Kronolith?
>
> -chuck
> --  


No... what we'd need is for students to be able to view calendars and  
book meetings and whatnot between Kronolith and Exchange.   
Essentially we have a bunch of departments/faculties as well as  
administration that refuse to give up exchange (for the usual  
ridiculous reasons).  The rest of the faculties/departments and the  
student body could use Kronolith.  Ideally there would be a way to  
talk between the two in some meaningful way.  That's not to say we  
wouldn't deploy Kronolith for the students anyway... but things would  
go a lot smoother for us if we could include exchange in the mix  
somehow.

K