commented:
I work in a big enterprise and we all use gsuite apps in the browser.
Accessing e-mail/calendar any other way is simply disabled/disallowed.
I think that is very common and I don't see a resurgance of desktop
mail and surrounding tech. People have moved on.

  commented:
Agreed. Most "enterprise" GSuite orgs I've seen (and I've been the
admin of one myself) have always disabled IMAP access. I get that this
post is in the context of EU Sovereignty, but I don't think the way to
be successful in that is to recreate Active Directory style setups but
not Microsoft. I've never even heard of some of the protocols or the
IMAP extension mentioned in this piece. I'd focus on modern protocols
and building EU native version of those

  commented:
From the article, this is related to the KDE Sovereign Tech Fund, so
this seems to be about giving options for organizations that cannot
delegate all their digital services to an American company.
So while gsuite may be convenient and may have 'won' critical
mindshare, for political reasons it may be unviable for some orgs and
this initiative is to suit those orgs, which I think is a respectable
tract for work.

  commented:
Not all companies disallow it (even though I agree with you that more
and more are going this way), and we don't only have our company email
to manage.
A desktop client has huge advantages from my point of view: a central
place to access all my email inboxes with a vendor-agnostic interface
(I don't have to deal with different web UIs), and it works seamlessly
offline.
And it's the same for calendars, having all calendars in one place
allows better organization. For example, when you're working for
multiple customers, you can instantly see if there's a collision
between events... without having to open many web pages and do the
aggregation mentally.

  commented:
I guess the irony here is that the solution to have everything in one
place for some orgs is simply to use Google or another provider for
everything.
One aspect might be that centrally managed provisioning of local
desktop clients still isn't trivial in many orgs. Especially for
desktops AND mobile devices. Centralized accounts for everything work
around that.

  commented:
Yes but there is case where you want to handle more than one account
(e.g. your company emails and your customer email if you are doing
services)
.