What are you freakin out about? All the exclamation points and what not, settle down. I never said I was gonna try and do it for the money, I simply said I was looking back into it and was gonna try it. I said I would post my success and failures back into the forum. Not that I would keep all the knowledge to myself then bilk the group for cash like a pimp.
Don't get me wrong I actually agree with you in some part, the collaboration part is totally correct. If someone really wants this feature and is willing to pay to have it done then have that knowledge given back to the community, that is alright. There is nothing wrong with that at all, it is a personal decision on their part.
If I had succeded I would not have taken the money but you would all owe.
That said, Here are a few thoughts about this.
I think with the new release to be coming out of open-xchange 0.8 I think is supposed to have support for M$ clients as well.
We can still try to install and work out any problems then when 0.8 comes out we will have a headstart.
The next problem is if SME is going to change the underlying OS I think maybe we should have two seperate projects for this, one trying to get it on the stable 6.01-1 and the newer 6.5b. This way when the beta is finished we will at least have a good understanding of what was needed.
Couple questions:
Does open-xchange use postgressql rather than mysql that e-smith uses? What are the problems that we are likely to run into if this is the case?