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I doubt it was lack of sales which made the decision. KDE isn't that far away from releasing their own plugin for Exchange for KMail, and that will be GPL when released. So if anything, Ximian proabably decided the timing was good to release it as GPL now rather than have everybody jump to KDE's mail program later.

This way they are promoting a cheaper desktop sooner rather than later (one of their goals) and they can say with some truth that they came out with a GPL Exchange plug-in first (and thus have more expertise with it, which is an important selling tool when selling services for GPL software).
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Cool, IBM better have a big checking account.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/11/04
I don't know  Monkey_MCSE | 05/11/04
AutoCAD...  Patrick Jones | 05/12/04
Keep in mind...  Michael Kelly | 05/11/04
Point well made, didn't even consider it(NT)  Monkey_MCSE | 05/11/04
Apple also  doh123 | 05/11/04
How NDS a directory service that actually works  voska | 05/11/04
Good replies one and all, but, how does it help Novell's bottomline?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/11/04
They aren't giving everything away  Monkey_MCSE | 05/11/04
And they are selling how much?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/11/04
About 1.1 billion per year  j.m.galvin | 05/11/04
They sell the services, not the software.  Michael Kelly | 05/11/04
Why would you want to?  aerospaceboy@... | 05/12/04
They would want to because they want to compete with MS  Michael Kelly | 05/12/04
Wait a minute  aerospaceboy@... | 05/12/04
Re: Why would you want to?  STDog | 05/12/04
True  aerospaceboy@... | 05/12/04
Novell's problem..  Patrick Jones | 05/12/04
The "cancer" continues growing  Linux_Developer | 05/11/04
This is huge  Chad_z | 05/11/04
You are so funny happy  aerospaceboy@... | 05/12/04
Following the MS business model  jasonp@... | 05/12/04
Don't forget the biggy here...  Laff | 05/12/04
Yes  aerospaceboy@... | 05/12/04
Soon is a relative term.....  Laff | 05/12/04
I will give you some of that  aerospaceboy@... | 05/12/04
Are all MS's 50,000 jobs still in America?  Laff | 05/12/04

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