Re: [Fed-Talk] "User" v. "Consumer" v. "Enterprise"
Re: [Fed-Talk] "User" v. "Consumer" v. "Enterprise"
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] "User" v. "Consumer" v. "Enterprise"
- From: "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:12:30 -0600
Fletcher, Boyd C. CIV US USJFCOM JFL J9935 wrote:
For 20+ years prior to the mid 90s almost all email users used separate
standalone apps for email, ab, and calendaring.
We when apps that combined those functions came out users rapidly migrated
to them example include those above and program line Pine. We at worked at
university, we provide pine, unix mail, and a variety of other X Window and
ASCII based mail programs and users by a large amount chose pine because it
integrated AB and Email and it had a easy to use UI.
While we had IMAP4 for mail and LDAP for directories, what we lacked was
CalDAV/iCalendar for events and XMPP for presence--and simple hooks for
applications to call one another. It was these gaps that made the
integrated applications more palatable.
That picture has changed (on some platforms, anyway :), so isn't it time
to re-evaluate ancient design decisions?
> you don't always need a formal study to determine trends. in the 1998
> we use IMAP/POP3 for email and LDAP for AB and we made available a
> variety of email/ab clients to users and almost all chose Outlook 98
> over the others because of the tight integration and better UI.
Not to determine broad trends, no; but to evaluate trends and make good
sense of them, yes you do need formal studies for that.
-- Tim
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