Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
I was just looking into this a bit more, and discovered that this is based on an OSS project called Open X-Change (http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/product/) The community version can be seen here (http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/) Could be a less costly alternative, although I haven't quite confirmed whether it's GPL'd FOSS. just my experiences with this open xchange: installation on debian was not really easy and took me about a day to get everything running (postgresql, ldap, apache, tomcat, ...) and setting up the right permissions for everything on the system. be aware to spend maybe more than a day if you dont have sound java-knowledge and no experience with apache/tomcat/ldap because sometimes it is necessary to change java-classes. but afterwards the web interface worked fine and the webmail is really amazing. i have tried to sync with ical and iaddressbook from apple, but to no avail. events added on the powerbook were not replicated to open xchange and vice versa. this was really frustrating because after spending a day in front of the computer instead of sitting in the park the most important things didnt work. and be careful with updating the system because on apt-get upgrade caused a lot of troubles with the ldapd. cu, gottfried -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: Anyone tried Novell's SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server ? http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/screenshots.html For that matter has anyone been brave enough to try Hula yet? (http://www.hula-project.org/) I have a prospective client who wants a hassle-free email/calendaring solution. Interoperability will be important eventually, but I don't care if it takes a year for the promised CalDAV support to materialise as long as I can implement something that has the basic functionality now and can be confident of a reasonably painless upgrade to a more featureful version in the future. I notice Ubuntu Hoary has Hula in Universe. Matthew. -- Alma Technology http://www.almatech.net.au (02) 6658 1607 ... 0419 242 316 -- ...running an application in a browser is no longer like writing with a brick tied to [your] pencil. - Mitch Kapor -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix, but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite expensive for 5 - 10 users. They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months. Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this job well? Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au *** This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete the message and notify the sender. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
Have a look at egroupware.org Edwin Humphries wrote: A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix, but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite expensive for 5 - 10 users. They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months. Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this job well? Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au *** This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete the message and notify the sender. *** -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http://lannet.com.au -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; When you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. begin:vcard fn:Howard Lowndes n:Lowndes;Howard org:LANNet Computing Associates adr:;;PO Box 1174;Lavington;NSW;2641;Australia email;internet:howard [AT] lowndes [DOT] name tel;work:02 6040 0222 tel;fax:02 6040 0222 tel;cell:0419 464 430 note:If you want to phone me, you will need to ensure that your phone presents Caller ID. x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.lannet.com.au version:2.1 end:vcard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
Have you check Horde/Kronolith from: http://www.horde.org ? It runs on an HTTPD server and clients are issued accounts on that server to use the calendar. It's got other functionalities like mail, address book, News, time tracking, etc. It's a groupware application software. It's written in php with a selection of backend DataBase like, MySQL, Postgress, and LDAP to name a few. Edwin Humphries wrote: A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix, but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite expensive for 5 - 10 users. They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months. Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this job well? Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au *** This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete the message and notify the sender. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:42:56PM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix, but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite expensive for 5 - 10 users. If they are happy to go over to webmail style interface then maybe TWIG could do the job. It's easy to set up and works with most web browsers. Have a look at http://www.informationgateway.org/ - Tel ( http://bespoke.homelinux.net/ ) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
For the sake of discussion: I was going to suggest Novell's OpenExchange product (http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/). But the pricing I've seen for that is US$1319 for a 10 client license. Edwin Humphries wrote: A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix, but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite expensive for 5 - 10 users. They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months. Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this job well? Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au *** This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete the message and notify the sender. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
Anyone tried Novell's SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server ? http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/screenshots.html On Thursday 21 April 2005 13:42, Edwin Humphries wrote: A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix, but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite expensive for 5 - 10 users. They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months. Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this job well? Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au *** This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete the message and notify the sender. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Group Calendaring Application
I was just looking into this a bit more, and discovered that this is based on an OSS project called Open X-Change (http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/product/) The community version can be seen here (http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/) Could be a less costly alternative, although I haven't quite confirmed whether it's GPL'd FOSS. Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: Anyone tried Novell's SUSE LINUX Openexchange Server ? http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/screenshots.html On Thursday 21 April 2005 13:42, Edwin Humphries wrote: A small customer for whom we're installing a Linux server wants to use Outlook for Group Calendaring (only) - for this some other person has advised an Exchange server. One alternative we have looked at is Scalix, but I think it's overkill for Group Calendaring only - and it's quite expensive for 5 - 10 users. They are a cleaning company that needs to coordinate staff to different types of jobs: episodic, major contract, project, and apply tasks at intervals of one or several days, weeks, and months. Personally, I would prefer to have them do calendaring another way, and I'm looking at Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird on Firefox - or even Thunderbird. But are there any other solutions that anyone knows of that will do this job well? Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd P. O. Box 423, Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 4233 2299 Web: http//www.ironstone.com.au *** This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete the message and notify the sender. *** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
