On 10/22/2004 17:39, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well, the first question has to be, what are you using Exchange for? >> Depending on that, you have a rather wide range of choices. > > Email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and the ability to share these between > users with a fairly robust rights management system. And also the ability > to have public areas, with the same rights mgmt. > > I realize these can be done with separate applications, and it may come to > that, but having them in one location was (is) great. > > To my knowledge, Novell is the only other OSX app that puts them in one. I > dread the possibility of having to switch to that, however, I don't know > whether that would be worse, or managing different several applications to > almost accomplish this. Okay, so there are two parts to this. For the server, you have pretty simple needs. Any groupware server that will support HTTP-DAV and LDAP will work with E'rage. Kerio, www.kerio.com is a great example. Kerio has the advantage of being one of the few solutions that will support E'rage that runs on Mac OS X and can integrate with Open Directory. If you go with Notes or GroupWise, you are using a Notes or GroupWise server. Well, you can use Notes without one, but it sucks really awfully bad. Really REALLY bad. I've yet to hear a single good thing about GroupWise, so we'll assume it's the same. Outside of that, it gets sticky. You're probably running on Linux, Windows, or Solaris for the server. Oracle has a great server, but the calendar client is really ugly. It works well, and has some features that Exchange/Outlook *still* don't have, scales awesomely, but the client's ugly as hell. Good Palm / PocketPC support. Client wise, you're either using E'rage, Evolution, or patching the hell out of Mail/iCal/AddressBook. iCal is a really piss-poor client. Good standalone, but just not designed for corporate calendaring. However, I use it with Paul's scripts, because other than the Oracle client, it's the ONLY calendar client I've found on the Mac that can EMAIL me a REMINDER!!! Yeah, that's a HUGE failing in E'rage. And a silly one. If you want more info/help, lemme know, I've had to play this spec out game before. john -- Just because you can stick toothpicks in your forehead and they�ll stay there and it doesn�t really hurt all that bad doesn�t mean you should go ahead and do it, at Denny�s or any other restaurant. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
