Re: OGo and SOGo

> > The information on
> > http://www.opengroupware.org/en/install/debian/index.html are
> > outdated and Sebstian isn't working on Debian packages anymore.

The website is horribly out-dated.

> > It looks like (this might be wrong!) OGo development is slow  
> > (stopped?)
> > and the active development is now done in SOGo.
> > Is this correct?
> Almost.
> OGo is basically 'done', its mature software in development and wide  
> deployment since over 10 years now. You mostly see bugfixes to the  
> current OGo version and smaller additions, hence, little 'progress'  
> feature wise. The next big 'feature' will be a Java 'client library'  
> for OGo, but even that is just an addition (but which might ultimately  
> lead to a new user interface, etc etc).

Fairly recently a new XML-RPC API was added, which I think counts as a
"feature".  But it isn't a user-facing feature.
<http://code.google.com/p/zogi/>

> > Can you clarify the status/differences of OGo and SOGo?
> They are completely different applications, although they share a lot  
> of basics (the SOPE application server frameworks).

This is covered allot in the Linux World interview
<http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/032808-opengroupware.html>

> OGo is a feature rich application, initially designed as a web  
> application, but with great support for access protocols like XML-RPC,  
> WebDAV, etc.
> As mentioned, it does not see a lot of 'big' development, since the  
> functionality is basically done and proven. (itch has been scratched ;-)

A large portion of OGo development isn't specifically on OGo but around
client access or related to clients like the Funambol GroupDAV connector
<http://bionicmessage.net/index.php?q=node/2> and Consonance
<http://code.google.com/p/consonance/>.   In relation to the GroupDAV
connector (mobile device support) we are working on some improvements to
ZideStore.   And I have some work to make the RSS feeds provided by
ZideStore way more realistic in providing something real-world end-users
want.  There usually one or two patches from someone else, relating to
various things, every month;  although most are, as mentioned, pretty
small (fixes, etc...). 

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