Groupware is still the big unsolved small-business problem in an open source stack. There have been many, many attempts to fix individual pieces of the problem, and a handful of overarching ones, but I'm not sure anyone has nailed it.
Client side: Evolution kinda/sorta works, most of the time. (And it doesn't run well on Windows or OSX.) The old Mozilla suite has just exploded -- it now takes three (haphazardly maintained -- versions last a few months at most) applications to manage what it used to do.
Server side: open source mail and mailbox servers are among the best, but is there any consensus on the best calendaring ? What clients can even talk to a CALdav server? Outlook can't.
It's obviously not as full featured as Rosetta Stone, nor does it come with courses, nor does it use voice recognition - but it does rely on basically the same research into memory and I've had a lot more success using Anki than Rosetta Stone.
iTunes. I know Banshee is an alternative, but it seems to have trouble with syncing my books, for which I need Calibre as well. It would be nice to have an all in one solution that didn't suck as bad as iTunes.
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[ 10.6 ms ] story [ 36.3 ms ] threadClient side: Evolution kinda/sorta works, most of the time. (And it doesn't run well on Windows or OSX.) The old Mozilla suite has just exploded -- it now takes three (haphazardly maintained -- versions last a few months at most) applications to manage what it used to do.
Server side: open source mail and mailbox servers are among the best, but is there any consensus on the best calendaring ? What clients can even talk to a CALdav server? Outlook can't.
Disclosure: My professor at CMU runs the company.
That being said, duolingo is awesome :)
It's obviously not as full featured as Rosetta Stone, nor does it come with courses, nor does it use voice recognition - but it does rely on basically the same research into memory and I've had a lot more success using Anki than Rosetta Stone.