[KLUG Members] Evolution 1.0 is here!

[Adam Williams]

>Thanks for clarifying that. The vCard thing is cool. The screen caps of 
>Evolution that I have seen look great. 

The "contact manager" (address book on steroids) is the first one I have
ever met that I actually like enough to use on a regular basis.  Being
able to just "forward" a contact to another person is a killer feature
IMHO.

Integration with other apps (Galeon, etc...) works great.

>Question though: if a user workstation melts for whatever reason, their 
>calendar info melts too, right? To me, that's one of the biggest
>benefits of having all that data on a server dedicated to the task of
>groupware, whether that be Exchange, GroupWise, or something else. The
>server side is usually just a service running at some port or another
>answering requests. There is no file access required. If there is no
>file or workstation db to back, how can I recover from disaster at the
>workstation? 

All true.  So far (unlike starmail) I've never had evolution hose,  and
I get lots of mail, etc...  But you're right,  file based services are
inherently unreliable and difficult to manage.

Since the Palm-sync conduits exists it would be nice if someone would
twiddle them so two evolutions, etc... could sync to each other.  That
would be a nice backup method.

>And in case you haven't heard it lately, many thanks for the intelligent 
>and thought-out answers you provide to the list...even to seemingly
>silly questions such is the one above. :)

Thanks.  Someone has got to try and balance Bruce's and Bob's ceaseless
ranting. ;)