Free/Open-source Personal Information Managers
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| A type of application software that functions as a personal organizer is
| called personal information manager (PIM). As an information management tool,
| a PIM's purpose is to facilitate the recording, tracking, and management of
| certain types of "personal information" such as personal notes, address
| books, significant calendar dates, reminders, email, RSS/Atom feeds,
| voicemail and more.
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http://junauza.blogspot.com/2008/03/freeopen-source-personal-information.html
Tasty open source Outlook alternative
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| I just love my friends in the programming community. They're always showing
| me new and useful tools that I'd never have located otherwise.
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| The latest one (thanks to Ed) is called Spicebird. It's similar to the
| better-known Thunderbird, Mozilla's popular email program, but even more
| complete. Spicebird is "...your one platform for many collaboration needs. It
| provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration
| and unlimited extensibility."
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http://news10now.com/content/features/112137/tasty-open-source-outlook-alternative/Default.aspx
Seven Unified Communications Trends At VoiceCon
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| 6. Big Bucks: IBM says it plans to invest $1 billion in unified
| communications over the next three years. That may sound like marketing hype.
| But consider this: IBM made similar statements about its Linux investments
| nearly a decade ago. And open source went on to become a mainstream
| enterprise option.
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| [...]
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| 4. Open Options: Yes, open source is converging with unified communications.
| You already know about Asterisk (see item #1 on this list). But start-ups
| like Unison are introducing unified software suites that combine IP
| telephony, email and instant messaging on a Linux server.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/11/seven-unified-communication-trends-at-voicecon/
Last week:
Everything in Unison on Linux
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| Software developer Unison has launched what it claimed is the world's first
| fully-unified communications suite based on Linux.
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http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=11629
Recent:
MEs to be offered cut-price Linux-based unified comms platform
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| A Linux-based unified communications platform will be launched at next
| month's CeBIT show in Germany. The software-based beta solution will be
| available for firms to download from next month.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/22/229533/smes-to-be-offered-cut-price-linux-based-unified-comms.htm
Related:
Vyatta Delivers Twice the Performance of Cisco at Half the Price
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| Vyatta today announced the release of independent third-party testing
| results from The Tolly Group that measured the throughput and
| performance of the open-source, x86-based Vyatta router and
| firewall appliance versus the proprietary Cisco 2821 ISR.
|
| "This report shatters the myth that proprietary hardware products
| are a better choice than standard x86-based systems for network
| infrastructure," said Dave Roberts, VP of strategy and marketing
| at Vyatta. "For the majority of routing applications, open-source
| software and x86-based hardware can easily address the performance
| requirements and at significantly lower price points."
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http://www.topix.net/content/prweb/2794294903426800112404643709233288209670
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