Old 3.5 Kmail -> mbox,

New Kmail -> akonadi -> neopunk -> mysql -> database.

It's simply a stupid waste of electrons. Just think of the extra carbon footprint if KDE was running 1 billion computers.

I was just by their website the other day and the Trinity folks are quite active.

I used to have a 1200dpi Lexmark printer I had bought new sometime around 1994. It was PostScreipt and I eventually setup Ghostscript on the server to do the rendering and shoot out the resulting bitmap to the printer. That made it so much faster, that I gave it an extra couple of years of service before I sprung for a new $129 Samsung ML-2570 PS printer.

Shops that embraced Active Directory and Outlook and the rest of Microsoft's proprietary stuff are stuck with Microsoft. Sorry.