Mac Calendaring Solutions? 80
ubercombatwombat asks: "I have been tasked with providing groupware for the administrative office at the school district, for which I am the network admin. Laetly, I have been searching in vain for an Entourage compatible groupware calendar solution. We have Communigate Pro, which was supposed to support Entorage by now, but doesn't. Meanwhile, I have placed HP 2410 iPaq's with The Missing Sync for PocketPC on the 10 desktops without groupware. Secretaries use Apple Remote Desktop, a few times a day, to update their bosses Entourage calendar. It is not the best solution, but it is all I can come up with, at the moment. Incidentally, we also have Brown Bear Software's excellent iCal product (yes, Apple licensed the 'iCal' name from them), but Brown Bear doesn't work with Entourage or Apple's iCal in a groupware role. As far as Exchange goes, I'd rather not use it. Does anyone have a Mac OS X groupware solution?"
Here are a few options... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Here are a few options... (Score:1)
For simple needs an Apache WebDAV server (included in OSX) is sufficient to accomplish the same thing and installing a full OGo server is probably overkill.
Kerio (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Kerio (Score:3, Informative)
It supports iCal...and Address book...and does it well.
Not cheap, but if you already own CommuniGate...you are used to that. If you ask me, Stalker missed the mark by a MILE. the rested too long, and I can see Kerio taking a LARGE chunk of their already small marketplace.
Re:Kerio (Score:2, Interesting)
download the trial (Score:2)
www.kerio.co.uk [slashdot.org]
that should have been (Score:2)
www.kerio.co.uk [kerio.co.uk]
CalTalk (Score:5, Informative)
CalTalk [softpedia.com] is a 'Bonjour' enabling app for iCal that lets you automatically share and find shared iCal calendars on the network. It only works on the local subnet because that's all Bonjour supports but that's just right for at home or at work use...
And of course it's a Free as in Beer app you can download now.
p.s. I'm not affiliated w/ the developer in any way
Broaden your search (Score:2)
Or how about web-based solutions?
Re:Broaden your search (Score:1)
Re:Broaden your search (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Broaden your search (Score:2)
Zimbra. (Score:3, Informative)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou
Online Calendar (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Online Calendar (Score:1)
Re:Online Calendar (Score:2)
Re:Open-Xchange (Score:1)
check out this thread on macslash (Score:4, Informative)
You may want to use the search on that site with a few other keywords. This subject comes along every once in a while so there's likely more than one thread about it.
Did you misunderstand the concept? (Score:2)
1. You forgot to put "Oblig." in the subject. It seems like every time there's an Ask Slashdot, someone says this.
2. While Google can provide you with the product names, there is some benefit to the personal opinions and experiences you find on Slashdot. People can say, "I used this, and this works great" or "stay away from this if you need it to do this". You have to really dig to find information like that, elsewhere.
Apparently, none of you ever considered the benefit to shared knowledge. This
Now Up-to-Date and Contact (Score:3, Informative)
Calendar Sharing via OS X Server (Score:1)
From there, other people subscribed to the public calendars.
I can't recall whether there was an option to allow others to edit your calendar, but you can allow them to view notes or have them get the alarms from your published calendar, and they were visible from the web as long as the server was web-accessib
Re:Web Based Service (Score:1)
If he's into a totally web-based solution, the guy looking should also probably have a look at the Horde project (PHP-based) - http://www.horde.org/ [horde.org] thoug
Re: (Score:2)
Try Zimbra (Score:1)
http://www.zimbra.com/ [zimbra.com]
Re:Try Zimbra (Score:2)
Have you used it significantly? how does it compare to the competition?
Ha!!! (Score:1, Offtopic)
You know it's Friday night in nerdtown when there are four back to back "Ask Slashdots".
Re:Just use iCal (Score:2)
Re:Just use iCal (Score:2)
Set up the email to use IMAP, that way everybody could access their email from their Macs as well as over the internet.
Re:Just use iCal (Score:1)
I have often used calendars where each meeting room had it's own calendar, and you just included the room on the invite, or variations around that. Has always seemed to work well. A nasty hack if you are used to something better, but it just works(tm), pretty much(tm)...
ha couple of ideas (Score:2)
I've heard Kerio is good, but I've never used it.
Meeting Maker (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Meeting Maker (Score:1)
Re:Meeting Maker (Score:1)
Web DAV? (Score:2)
Re:Web DAV? (Score:4, Informative)
Linux box (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm a Machead myself but I think this is the best solution, it surely was the cheapest and will run on everything with a webbrowser. And it is the savest solution for the future. Right now there are some people who want to change everything from Mac to Windows, who knows if in a few years our city switches to Linux?
half cooked, useful bits = commercial (Score:2)
OpenGroupware is still in beta; has been for years. The Outlook and Palm plugins for Open Xchange are commercial.
Also, I'm a Linux sysadmin, and unless the company building the linux box really knows what they're doing, you can't really treat it like an appliance. Additionally, both projects on their own strike me as immature (ie some monitoring and s
Re:half cooked, useful bits = commercial (Score:2)
Re:half cooked, useful bits = commercial (Score:1)
Re:half cooked, useful bits = commercial (Score:1)
The server software itself is developed since about 10 years and was available in stable commercial versions for years (Skyrix 3..4.. currently 5). The first community release, OGo 1.0.0, is expected in May (LinuxTag 2006).
Re:half cooked, useful bits = commercial (Score:2)
On the other hand, if your using exchange or lotus notes you need both commercial clients *and* servers, so it's still a lot cheaper.
Re:Linux box (Score:2)
Honestly, imho it's the best interface outside of outlook web 2003 (slick), or gmail (simp
There are a *lot* of OS X Calendaring apps (Score:5, Informative)
You might want to look at or evaluate these:
Crm4Mc 2.0
http://www.ibizzi.com/ [ibizzi.com]
DayChaser : Econ Technologies
http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/DayCha
DayLite : Marketcircle
http://www.marketcircle.com/ [marketcircle.com]
ecOrganizer
http://www.ecorganizer.com/ [ecorganizer.com]
intuiware : HotPlan
http://www.intuiware.com/ [intuiware.com]
Now Software : Now up to date
http://www.nowsoftware.com/ [nowsoftware.com]
Organizer software by CSoftLabs
http://www.csoftlab.com/ [csoftlab.com]
Pure Mac : Personal Information Managers
http://www.pure-mac.com/pims.html [pure-mac.com]
RadicalBreeze.com - Formation
http://www.radicalbreeze.com/formation/index.shtm
SOHO Organizer
http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohoorganizer.
OD4Contact
http://objective-decision.com/en/ [objective-decision.com]
Oracle Calendar (Score:1)
SOHO Organizer (Score:1)
using iCal as groupware... (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.infurious.com/blogs/ [infurious.com]
(Warning: Link is to a blog. And yes, I'm involved in this. So, this is almost a cheap shill advert!)
Try FirstClass (Score:1)
Re:Try FirstClass (Score:1)
Re:Try FirstClass (Score:1)
Re:Try FirstClass (Score:1)
the URL should be http://www.firstclass.com/ [firstclass.com]
Forget "groupware", pick the pieces you need. (Score:3, Interesting)
After LOTS of searching, I gave up on the all-in-one groupware solution and decided to pick individual apps that just do what we need, nothing more. There is no good groupware solution w/ a full client for OS X outside of Exchange/E'rage and Notes; this is a big hole someone should fill.
I chose Communigate Pro for email, because it's solid, and I don't want to spend precious time fooling w/ a cranky email server. Exchange was out, it's expensive, and I have zero experience (or desire) adminning it or windows server. It was either CGP or Kerio, and Kerio has more groupware features, but when I looked, Kerio was having some pretty serious bug/stability issues--this was pre 6.1 I think. The support forums were a bloodbath, and I didn't need that headache.
For calendaring, we're currently testing Meeting Maker. Native OS X client, web interface too, it does calendaring and little else. People like it so far.
Even w/ individual programs, the administrative burden can be lessened by support for LDAP authentication. Both CGP and Meeting Maker support this (MM w/ an extra bundle).
If I were you, I'd drop the requirement for Entourage integration, and find standalone solutions that best fit your need. Even just using Meeting Maker would be a huge improvement over what you have now.
Re:Forget "groupware", pick the pieces you need. (Score:3, Interesting)
There are many other things that drive me crazy about Exchange... I personally like how there is a separa
Re:Forget "groupware", pick the pieces you need. (Score:1)
Even as a complete solution, either package is too much for our 35 person org. Maybe if we were 10x that, and more tech-oriented, it'd be up our alley.
eGroupware (Score:1)
http://www.egroupware.org/ [egroupware.org]
Re:eGroupware (Score:1)
--Mike
Re:eGroupware (Score:1)
Re:eGroupware (Score:1)
Having a web interface does not imply that servers do not provide other ways to access the data
Zimbra (Score:1)
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tachijuan
http://amuyu.com/ [amuyu.com]
open you requirments... (Score:2)
consider an all web deployment, one that does not require specific software on the clien
Zimbra (Score:1, Redundant)
Novell Groupwise is worth a close look (Score:1)
client that runs great on Linux and MacOS-X. It basically has all
the features of Exchange and more, without the administration
hassles and it runs on Linux servers.
You look like you're at an educational institution, which means you
can probably get their ALA pricing (only $5k/year for several hundred
users).
Re:Novell Groupwise is worth a close look (Score:1)
Re:Novell Groupwise is worth a close look (Score:1)
major vendor that offered all of the features of Exchange. That
equals Groupwise. What version did you have trouble with? Beyond us, I know of a couple other companies running GW v7 on SUSE and it's rock
solid for all.
How about this? (Score:1)
MeetingMaker (Score:2)
MeetingMaker (I think they just changed their name to PeopleCube) is solid on all its platforms (OS X/OS9; Windows; and the Web Client). Also has Palm conduits, and can interface with Blackberry and WinCE with Intellisync.
Mac groupware (Score:1)
Dynamic online calendaring (Score:2)
Are there any decent calendaring applications that let me
Plenty of programs will import iCal calendars (which seems to be the most popular format), but it's a one-time thing. I'm looking for something more like RSS - import what's there now, and check back on a regular basis for updates.
Importing isn't very helpful if I have to do it manually every couple days.
I think the time is ripe for a new kind of ca
this kinda sucks (Score:1)