I’m a big fan of ‘new features’, often I run beta software just to try out all the new features and see how I can break these (believe me I can). In my roaming the Internet looking at the plans for Fedora 10 I noticed a very interesting feature: OpenChange
OpenChange, as its described is meant for: “Natively access Microsoft Exchange using OpenChange. By using the libmapi library from OpenChange, tools such as kdepim and Evolution can become first-class clients of a Microsoft Exchange Server”.
This to me feels like a huge step forward, if all would work out. One of the biggest issues with migrating to Linux is the fact that when you work with corporate environment you need Exchange support. Evolution right now does include support for Exchange, this is however through WebDAV which is pretty horrible.
I believe that once OpenChange really provides the intergration one would need for Exchange, this will be a big step for Linux environment. Hopefully Thunderbird will follow soon, as that is just the ultimate client if you ask me.
See the Accepted Feature List for other interesting Fedora 10 developments.
June 21st, 2009
4 Comments at "Fedora 10 – Exchange support?"
[...] Their release notes, which haven’t changed much since my last report: [...]
Spotted this myself – but can’t quite bring myself to risk breaking my laptop yet with the pre-release of Fedora 10. Have you tried it yet? Quite keen to give it a go.
Ubuntu have included OpenChange in Intrepid too….might give that a go!
Unfortunately things have gone a different way, Fedora 10 will not have Exchange support they are now aiming at Fedora 11 to have it.
Fedora 10 is currently in beta so should be really usable.
[...] of the interesting things is that OpenChange support has been completed! This is something I was really looking forward to in Fedora 10, but didn’t make it into the final release. I intend to test drive this real soon, until [...]
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