Re: The new Hula project

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
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Moved to discuss.

On Feb 16, 2005, at 17:16, Chris H wrote:
> Hula is essentially a combination/integration effort of NetMail 
> (formerly proprietary) and NetLine former SLOX provider to SuSE.

Nope. As far as I can see there is absolutely no relationship between 
the two.

The press release just states that Netline will contribute to Hula - 
well, we'll see. I heavily doubt it since OX is a Java server and Hula 
is C.

Notably Hula is a real Novell OpenSource product hosted on Novell 
forge, while OX is (IMO) pushed even further out into the cold by the 
Hula effort.
But this doesn't need to concern us ;-)

> NetMail is powerfull and small. It will be interesting to see if there 
> are any integration potential, once the code is reviewed, and 
> application potential for OGo.

I think it will be interesting to see what we can reuse from the DHTML 
code in the web interface they want to build _in the future_. So far it 
doesn't contain any interesting stuff.

> Novell is slowly and methodically rallying all the troups to build an 
> opensource alternative to the most used proprietory stack.

IMHO this is an incorrect perception of the facts. _Mozilla and OSAF_ 
are pushing CalDAV and rally up the troops. The fame goes to them, 
especially OSAF.

The reality distortion field is at work here ;-)

> Expect this project to integrate seemlessly with Evolution and expect 
> evolution to be made available on windows in the not to distant 
> future.

I suppose so. But only with Evolution until the other clients really 
support CalDAV.

> How does this impact the OGo project. Significantly I would say and in 
> a positive manner.

Agreed. Hula seems to have a very strong focus on providing a 
simplistic server for the masses so it doesn't really clash with OGo.
Its also good because it intends to push standards like CalDAV which in 
turn directly helps OGo.

Greets,
   Helge
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