[Sigia-l] looking for insight into the strengths and weaknesses of integrating MSOutlook into portals

[Listera]

"Joe Lamantia" wrote:

> From my own experiences with the standard MSExchange web UI, I suspect that
> designing and building this will be costly and difficult, and in the end will
> result in an awkward and unsatisfying solution.

I don't know your timeframe but...

Avalon/XAML was conceived precisely for this type of integration.

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/pillars/avalon/default.asp
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While Gates promised Longhorn beta out in 2005, I don't know when the new OS
will ship.

Macromedia Flex is out, however:

<http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/>

As is XUL:

<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-appmozx/>

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