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December 01, 2005
Email to Jonathan Schwartz
I'm as frustrated as anyone when it comes to Communications Express. I realize its buggy and there's not a whole lot I can do about it, except stay up to date with the latest patches, which I'm doing. I'm getting them before they're publicly released.
The other day I emailed Jonathan Schwartz ( President of Sun ) and asked him where's Sun's answer to Microsoft Outlook? They have StarOffice a very good cheap alternative to Microsoft Office ( minus outlook of course )
The bottom line is there email server is flawless, and works wonderfully, and is never down. The calendar server is the same way. They just don't seem to have a good client to use both of them. Email is easy. They support IMAP, and you can find many very good imap email clients. My favorite to date is Thunderbird. If you like it you can try it yourself. There are instructions here.
Well Jonathon replied to me within about 20 minutes, and then over the next couple of days I received phone calls from the Northwest regional manager as well as the project manager for the Java Enterprise System. They gave me the latest patch to Communications Express that was supposed to have fixed a similar issue. So far its too early to see if its fixed our problem.
So keep me posted if you find less blanks, or more, or the same.
Posted by knabet at December 1, 2005 09:09 AM