From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40D03317.1080903@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40CF734C.7020108@noplace.com> <7iLzc.97433$3x.15169@attbi_s54> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:47:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.95 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1087386433 209.165.23.95 (Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:47:13 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:47:13 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1569 Date: 2004-06-16T11:47:13+00:00 List-Id: I've found Outlook to be bloated, slow, etc. That might make a good candidate. Perhaps with a philosophy of not trying to build the Swiss Army Knife of e-mail programs: Build the various functions as independent units (capable of working together) so that you don't need to load/run the pieces you don't want or for which you have a substitute (like an address book). That might be a concept that could work well & find some popularity in the user community. Perhaps even making it work in conjunction with OpenOffice might help? Of course, there's always the question: "How do we make some money on this?" If we don't do that, there are no salaries & no funding of vendors. Open Source might be a good way to get it out into the world, but would people pay for it in some way? MDC tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>something that already exists? Why not an "Office Suite" or an > > How about a decent replacement for Outlook. That would surely be greeted > with tremendous demand. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================