Re: Re: Any news regarding new generation of WebMail templates

Aaron,
Your comments say exactly what I was originally meaning,
only far more 
eloquently,
Ben
Ben Hanson
I.T. MGR
Transprint USA



Aaron Faby wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I love SurgeMail, and the Netwin guys are awesome.
>
> However, I think sometimes development goes into
features that aren't 
> really
> important. Whereas that time could have been better
spent on other 
> things.
>
> For instance, blogs. Blogs are cool and all that, but
personally I 
> would rather
> see groupware (caldav, etc) or better archiving
features.
>
> I recommend SurgeMail to everyone I talk to, but the
very first thing 
> they ask
> me about is groupware features. This is a show stopper
for many 
> people. As users,
> we have a vested interest in seeing Netwin sell more
SurgeMail 
> licenses because
> that means they can keep making SurgeMail more awesome,
and keep 
> providing their
> great support for it.
>
> Groupware and better webmail/archiving will sell way
more licenses 
> than blogs.
>
> I don't mean this as an attack on Netwin or anything,
just a point I 
> wanted to
> make.
>
> Regards,
> Aaron
>
>
>

I could of course be wrong but perhaps the different desires
for surgemail 
come from different markets?

My impression is that surgemails core market is more on the
bulk email 
providers - ISP's, universities etc, where groupware is not
a particular 
issue. I  can see blogs being desirable in such an area
though.

Groupware, even just a bare calendar/addressbook is more a
small - large 
business issue.

Having said that, I would kill for a basic standards based
centralised 
calendar/address book addon that I could hook
thunderbird/kontact/outlook to 
for surgemail. But I admin a small business email server and
my home 
network 



Also - I quite like the existing webmail, its lightweight,
fast and works well 
on a variety of platforms/browsers. Sure the look is a bit
ancient, but it 
has better functionality than a lot of other modern
webclients.

-- 
Lindsay