On Tue, 8 May 2007, Peter Hardy wrote: > Hey hey. > > I'd like something that can share contacts / calendars / tasks across > a fairly mixed environment - evolution, thunderbird and > sunbird/lightning on Windows and Linux, and Outlook 2k3. > > We initially considered just exporting calendars to a WebDAV share. > This seems to be a workable solution, but I have my doubts about how > well a .htaccess scheme to allow access would scale to an office of > around 40 users. > On a similar note, CalDAV or GroupDAV look like attractive solutions > to drop in to an existing environment as well. But from some brief > googling, it seems that Outlook support for either of these protocols > are limited at best. Has anybody had any success syncing Outlook with > one of these servers?
Have you considered using a hosted service like Google calendar? Google calendar can be synchronised with your desktop applications using GSyncDaemon which is a java application that works well with Windows and Linux. It has a Windows installer, but I have mine working with Gentoo Linux, but I had to install the app without a Gentoo package. I don't know if there are any packages for other distros. I use GooSync hosted service to sync my Google calendar with my phone using SyncML protocol. I would say Google calendar is good for small to medium size companies and I don't know if Google calendar scale well within an organisational so you may consider hosting something yourself using eGroupware or phpGroupware. It seems that eGroupware has better support and eGroupware allows you to sync calendar to mobile phones and pda through SyncML protocol. I have done preliminary research on these applications so I don't know how well they work. > > I've also looked at Scalix in the best, and like what I see. My only > issue with it so far is that I'd prefer to keep my existing mail > infrastructure. Is it possible for it to co-exist with an existing > IMAP service? I'm not sure how phpGroupware or eGroupware works with existing IMAP infrastructure. > > -- > Pete Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Alcazar: "Leela, this must all be very confusing." Leela: "A little. That's why I've decided to hurt you until you explain it."
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