I take it that you want som kind of mix of Lotus Notes and Xoops. (I may have gotten that wrong, but that's irrelevant for the rest of this post.)
The big choise that we have to make about applications is wether we want big applications that handles it all or if we want to split everything up.
Big, commecial applications are starting to split up - Take Mozilla as a n example:
First, it was intended to be a big, total sollution wor web browsing/composing, FTP-ing, e-mail handling, etc., but today it's starting to split up in smaller projects like Thunderbird and Firebird.
The question is if this is the direction we want to go, or if we want to go the M$-route, with a couple of huge, do-it-all applications which integrates seamlessly with eachother (at least that was the intention :-)).
Splitting everything up is nice as you can then customize everything; I can use my favourite e-mail program and my favourite web-browser together with my favourite word precessor and my favourite image editing software. On the other hand, there will eventually appear huge problems when trying to integrate everything, and it wil be hard to coordinate the smaller projects when there is no longer a Mozilla project, but a Firebird project and a Thunderbird project.
When using big applications, designed to do it all, the flexibility you have when you can choose among all programmes, will be lost. But program interaction will be easier, and development will be unified.
Before we decide which kind of killer app we want, we should decide which route to go. Both will work fine, but it'll be hard to walk on both at the same time. Especially in a market as small as the Amiga one.
By the gods! Did I just type something that made sense??? :-o
