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The Hula Project

Evolution
Evolution

Nat wrote: Today we are thrilled to be launching Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server. Hula is a really exciting project already in part because we think that we can fill a hitherto-unclaimed spot in the stack of open source applications and in part because we've "primed the pump" by basing it on an existing, functioning codebase: a Novell product called NetMail. NetMail already runs millions of calendars and mailboxes. And so we're starting off with the mundane work of building a functioning server done, leaving us to focus on creating interesting new functionality.

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Redundant Unnecessery effort.

Egroupware.org has all the features that Hula is shooting for and they have them working reliably now. They have an XMLRPC API that will work with any client that implements and it is indeed easy to implement.

NAT seems to have been contaminated by the not-invented-here mentality that almost killed Novell before its rediscovery of Linux. Spend a month creating an evolution plugin for egroupware and be done already!

Instead, we'll have two-to-three years before this is ready for prime time. What an utter waste of effort, imagination and creativity!