Oracle Collaboration Suite is a completely aweful product.

I believe Oracle’s Collaboration Suite claims to store mail in the database and will talk to Outlook.
http://www.oracle.com/collabsuite/

One Outlook alternative is Yahoo Mail’s address book. It will export/import Palm Desktop (.ABA) format, or Outlook format, and there’s an app for synching. I regularly move among several remote sites, and friends’ houses, and the Yahoo suite (which is free) works for me. And I trust Yahoo not to lose my address book to a hard drive crash more than I trust myself not to lose my data. Of course, what’s on Yahoo is also on various other devices.

Nick: Outlook sucks in a lot of ways, esp. because I can’t figure out how to program it. But I started using it when I got my Handspring Treo so that I could have my addresses and phone numbers in the Palm portion of the device. It would be nice if Outlook stored everything in an RDBMS and you could do your own SQL queries. But I guess that isn’t likely to happen any time soon.

What would the alternative to Outlook be anyway? (given that one wants to sync with a Palm-like device and/or other phones in the future)

You used to pan Micro$oft Lookout. Did someone give you a heart transplant?

Just to be, um , businesslike, I’ve adapted a disclaimer to place with my own personal information.

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obviously American