 | | Re: OT: Is there a DECENT cross-platform calendaring server out
there? | Re: OT: Is there a DECENT cross-platform calendaring server out
there? 2005-04-22 - By William Warren
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Try novell's hula server..:) It is still in it's infancy but it
is coming along nicely
D.R.Barker@(protected) wrote:
>>On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Doug Stewart wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This is probably a bit off-topic, but I'm pretty close to pulling my
>>>hair out
>>>over this one.
>>>
>>>My company and I are currently using a vastly-inferior calendaring
>>>program
>>>called Meetingmaker and desperately need to move to something that gives
>>>us a
>>>full-featured company calendaring solution without all sorts of extra
>>>cruft
>>>(read: file sharing, task tracking, webmail, etc.). I've looked at
>>>OpenGroupware.org, Open Exchange, Oracle Calendar, Hula Server, Sun
>>>Calendar
>>>and a whole slew of web-based calendars from Freshmeat. None of them
>>>are
>>>anywhere close to what we need.
>>>
>>>We need cross-platform rich clients (OSX, Sun, Windows and Linux), asset
>>>reservation capabilities, proxies/assistants for administrative
>>>assistants
>>>and sync'ing with Palms at the minimum.
>>>
>>
>>Oracle Calendar does all of this happily, why was it not close to what you
>>want?
>
>
> Whilst I can't speak for the original poster, Oracle, open-xchange,
> opengroupware & lotus are all quite heavy weight to get going compared to
> meetingmaker ;-)
>
> Have you tried looking at MeetingMaker 8.5 with some of the extra options?
> We have it working with openldap for user provision & group maintainence
> using the ldap plugin. The new HTML client makes up for the lack of
> Linux/Solaris client too.
>
> "file sharing, task tracking, webmail, etc." in one package still seem's
> like it's a way off yet, and by it's nature is bound to have several
> dependancies (enterprise directory, backend database, MTA's, web server's
> et al) Open-xchange/Oracle Colab Suite are as close as you're going to get
> - good luck :)
>
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