On Wednesday 21 December 2005 22:58, Timothy D. Witham wrote:
>
>     2) Group calendaring including meeting scheduling.
>               i..e.  I want to check if Tom, Bill, Linus and Buddy the wonder
>                      dog are available at 10:00 PM.
>             This includes a laptop resyncing when it gets back to a
>                connected state and the last know schedule being
>               available on a server.
>     3) Proxies for executives.   i.e. Setup an admin to be able to respond
>         to the executive's mail so that it appears to be coming from the
> executive so the lower folks don't know that the executive doesn't read
> most of their own mail.
>
>  P.S. Open source because they don't want to be locked in like what
> happened with their last supplier of group mail/calendaring.
>
>    This seems to be the problem as folks keep doing new clients when the
> issues is the server side stuff.

Open source solutions like Kolab, OpenGroupware, Open-Xchange, eGroupware, 
etc. do solve all or at least most of these issues today (depending on what 
server you look at and the exact use case you have). Maybe this fact is just 
not known enough.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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