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: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:23:46 -0500
On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Timothy J. Miller allegedly wrote:
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.
Since I moved from Mutt/Pine, to Outlook, and now onto Mail, iCal,
AB.. I must say I prefer the separate structure method.
If I want to open one App, I can. Just my calendar. That way i don't
have email pouring in all the time (and it does pour).
Maybe it's a perception thing. When I worked with Outlook (yes, i've
worked with the current in a day to day basis, and hated it), I
expected certain things to work a certain way. When I found out, when
I tried to do those certain things, and they didn't work, I got
angry. If I am working with 3 different apps, and something doesn't
work as I expect it to, then I guess, in the back of my mind I can
blame it on the fact that it's 3 separate apps.
But, I do prefer the 3 app method. 4 if you include iChat, which also
integrates into AB and Mail.
--
Joel Esler
http://www.joelesler.net
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