GNOME Evolution

GNOME Evolution (formerly Novell Evolution and Ximian Evolution, before Novell acquired Ximian in 2003) is the official personal information manager for GNOME. It has been an official part of GNOME since Evolution 2.0 was included with the GNOME 2.8 release in September 2004. It combines email, address book, calendar, task list, and note-taking features. Its user interface and functions are similar to Microsoft Outlook. Evolution is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Evolution delivers the following features: The Novell GroupWise plug-in is no longer in active development. A Scalix plug-in is also available, but its development stopped in 2009. Evolution Data Server (EDS) is a set of libraries and session services for storing address books and calendars. Other software such as California and GNOME Calendar depends on EDS also. Some documentation about the software architecture is available in the GNOME wiki.