On 08/05/07, Joseph Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Google isn't the only choice; there's also zoho.com, and there are a few other players as well. I use Spanning Sync(.com) with my Mac; it nicely pushes the data into iSync and thus into the standard apps. It also then pushes everything nicely to my phone, and also takes everything the other way. You didn't mention any macs though, only windows and linux, so my babblings will stop now. If you've got a windows environment, you should be able to sync the Google Calendar with Outlook and then use your phone's sync software to sync that with your phone. 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.
Google Calendar also has some nice features re: sharing calendars and free/busy information with other people in your organisation, and also makes shared/team/joint calendars easy, as well as calendars for resources such as meeting rooms, projectors, etc. But, you do have to keep in mind that you're shipping what could be your highly confidential internal information off to Google's servers, and you may or may not think that's acceptable. -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
