eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through - The Trouble with Lightning (
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The big problem with Thunderbird as an Outlook replacement is the absence of the MAPI protocol through which Outlook talks to Exchange. Lightning does support remote calendars exposed through iCal, CalDAV or Sun's Java System Calendar Server, but the Exchange omission will be problematic for many businesses.