On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Troy.A Johnson wrote:

> Hold on now! Exchange isn't the only 'broken
> implementation of standards' game in town.
> Groupwise is also quite broken (from what I
> hear), though not as popular.

Yup, Groupwise is 'broken standards' in action.  I personally don't like
their client, it has many MANY bugs and it seems pretty bulky for what it
does.  OTOH, the rumor of a linux client does entice me a little.

I think their communication standard is just as proprietary as Exchange,
although it does accept POP/SMTP clients of any flavor.  Groupwsie has
another route though, just as excahnge does.  It has a web
interface.  There is a project underway to create an open-source Exchange
client which uses perl to send/receive commands from the web scripts and
pipe it to a desktop client.  The same could be done with Groupwise, but
since few use it there's no real call for it.

-Brian