Where I work we use Corporate Time (Steltor, now Oracle) which has clients for Windows, Linux/Unix and possibly Mac, as well. There's also a web interface for road warriors. They have Palm OS conduit software, too, but only for Windows (Bah!) The Corporate Time suite is not open source, but is a product that works.
Dick On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:11, Dan Winship wrote: > > * what is the difference between iCal and vcalendar > > formats ? Is there a place I can go to learn more > > specifics about the formats? Is there a single standard, > > or if not is there one format that is more popular than > > the other? > > vCalendar is an older standard created by an industry consortium. > iCalendar is the current IETF standard that is based on it. iCalendar is > basically vCalendar 2.0 (and if you look at your Evo calendar.ics file, > you'll see that the first line is "BEGIN:VCALENDAR" and a few lines down > is "VERSION:2.0".) The basic format is defined by RFC 2445, and RFCs > 2446 and 2447 describe the additions for doing email-based scheduling. > > > * any recommendations on a good shared calendaring > > solution? One of our criteria is the ability for us to > > access and change the calendar while on the road, which > > probably means web interface. I'm also pushing strongly > > for open standards, and am trying to push away from > > Outbreak/Expunge. Having the calendaring integrated with > > e-mail and being able to sync with Palm are also > > important. For a client, I wish I could push Evo, but > > most of our users are on Windows... > > The IETF calendaring and scheduling working group is working on a > standard called CAP (Calendar Access Protocol), which will be the open > standard for calendar servers. But it's not progressing very quickly so > there aren't going to be clients and servers that support it any time > soon. Until then, there really isn't much in the way of open standards > for calendaring. > > The only calendar server I know of that has Windows, Linux, and web > clients is Exchange. If you don't mind making at least the Linux users > use the web interface then there are more options. SuSE's email server > has a web-based calendar system, as does Sun ONE (formerly iPlanet). I'm > not sure about what sort of functionality Steltor and MeetingMaker have. > There are also a handful of free web-based systems in various states of > completion (phpGroupWare, TUTOS). > > -- Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
