wine and outlook

[Eberhard Roloff]

Mike Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ignazio Palmisano <ignazio_io at yahoo.it> wrote:
>> Mike Shaw wrote:
>>> Already done - but they are not the answer.  None work talking
>>> directly to an Exchange 2007 server and work with the M$ Outlook
>>> calender, specifically the shared calendar.  If I'm wrong I'll be
>>> happy to get the correction, but from what I've seen I'm not.
>>>
>>> The problem is not alternatives, but alternatives that talk to
>>> Exchange(2007), which there are not any that are free at the moment
>>> that talk natively to Exchange(not OWA).
>>> OpenChange(http://www.openchange.org/) may be an alternative but I'm
>>> not sure if it covers the client side.  The quick skimming I've done -
>>> it looks like a server solution which doesn't help me since I don't
>>> control the server side.
>> I did a quick search that came out with this result, which seems a bit
>> old but gives another idea: run a VirtualBox with windows and outlook
>> and maybe use any of the remote tricks on that virtual machine? It owrks
>> better than Wine but you need the OS.
>> HTH,
>> I.
> 
> Yep - done that but you hit the nail on the head.  If Desktop "owns"
> the OS then you don't have access.
> 
And this is financially the most expensive solution that you can have.
No chance for Linux to be a worthwhile and successfull replacement.

Eberhard