{"id":19,"date":"2006-11-30T21:46:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T21:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/novell-to-drop-hula\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T21:46:30","slug":"novell_to_drop_hula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/novell_to_drop_hula\/","title":{"rendered":"Novell to drop Hula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;m very sad to hear that Novell will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regdeveloper.co.uk\/2006\/11\/29\/novell_hula_microsoft\/\">dropping Hula<\/a> and withdrawing the lead developers. They claim there is no market for the product, but I know that a lot of people (including me) have been looking forward to a first official release for a long time. Perhaps this is just a result of their recent cosy relationship with Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hula-project.org\/Hula_Server\">Hula Project<\/a> is (was) an email and calendaring server with Googlesque web interfaces which was set to rival Microsoft Exchange. I was particularly interested in the CalDAV support for calendaring and LDAP address books. The problem was that it has been in development for so long and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbra.com\">other projects<\/a> have sort of filled the void.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m sad that the Hula Project has lost it&#039;s commercial sponsor and I now can&#039;t help but feel that it was given away in the first place because it was considered to be of no commercial value. But I hope that this is only the beginning. I hope that the open source community can now adopt this project and it will live again, perhaps under a different name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;m very sad to hear that Novell will be dropping Hula and withdrawing the lead developers. They claim there is no market for the product, but I know that a lot of people (including me) have been looking forward to a first official release for a long time. Perhaps this is just a result of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/novell_to_drop_hula\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Novell to drop Hula<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}