Re: OT: Is there a DECENT cross-platform calendaring server out there?

[D R Barker exeter ac uk]

> 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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David Barker
University of Exeter IT Services