Ximian connector

[Dre G.]

We have been testing the current crossoveroffice and it does not work
with office XP, so if you need the newest office solution
crossoveroffice is not for you. If however you can deal with office 2000
then your fine, everything works great, I will advise however that you
do have a fast machine, crossoveroffice does use wine, which in turn
eats up a lot of cpu (lots of waist going on opening max/min, closing
programs etc).

The plugin might be the better answer here since open office can write
your doc's in most of office's formats and the plugin would give you
that up2date feel of calendering thru evolution, (I don't know how much
calendering has changed over these last few updates). Also beware of
open office though, I have heard reports of it munging data on some
formats although it has never done that to me.

If I can provide you with any other helpful tips ask, and if I do have
the info I'll try to answer.

dre
enabled at linuxjunkies.com

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:15, David Holland wrote:
> Cool!  I forgot about Crossover Office.  I'll check in to it.  The
> company I work for is shifting over to an Outlook based tracking system
> for all the tickets, jobs, contacts, etc. and this makes using Linux
> more challenging.  Part of the problem is that this new software
> requires a very updated version of outlook 2002 so I'll need to be able
> to update Outlook under linux.  
> I can run terminal services and get to Outlook that way, but I need the
> data in Exchange while I'm onsite.  Also, I'd rather do as much as I can
> in Linux and only depend on Windows when I have to. 
> 
> David
> 
> > Honestly, I would lean to crossover office.  Then you can run Outlook
> > locally.  I have a windows box that supplies me with eye candy, and
> runs
> > outlook for the calander, and I use to test customer applications.  I
> do
> > all my real work on a laptop running suse 8.2, including reading my
> > exchange server mail via imap.  Another option is run terminal
> services
> > on a windows server, and run outlook there using rdesktop, or if you
> can
> > get citrix you can use the citrix client.  All under Linux.  The
> ximian
> > connector last time I checked it out, didn't support some key features
> > that I needed to do my work effectively.  There is also the outlook
> web
> > client.  I use imap and ldap to do most of my exchange tasks.
> > 
> > --
> > Don't knock President Fillmore.  He kept us out of Vietnam.
> 
> 
> 
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