calendar sharing

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 17:16 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:15 -0700, Jason Hayes wrote:
> > Is there any way to share calendar items between Evolution and Outlook
> > users without using an Exchange server? I have Googled around and
> > searched the archives of various lists, but have not found an answer
> > yet.
> > 
> > My reason for asking is that my office wants to start sharing calendars,
> > but the expense of an Exchange server license makes that an unlikely
> > option (I work with a small non-profit, with a limited IT budget).
> > 
> > I would prefer to keep using Evolution for my mail and calendar
> > information as I have become accustomed to it. However, my office mates
> > are not terribly interested in switching from an MS environment. So if
> > Evolution can't do the job, I will need to switch to something else.
> > 
> > Is this sort of sharing easier with Kontact? Since the KDE folks have
> > bundled Akregator in with Kontact, using it would be a possibility.
> > 
> > If the above isn't possible, has anyone used something like PHProjekt? I
> > don't want to have to start using two calendars (i.e. Evolution and
> > PHProjekt), but am interested in hearing about options.
> ----
> Since this is a repeated discussion, perhaps we should put this on PLUG
> website and allow people to have commentary on specific applications.
> 
> Outlook is a PITA as it is pretty much an unwilling client and if you
> insist on that as one of the clients then your options are probably
> things like...
> 
> Open source or free options (note: most of these have commercial
> versions and/or charge for the connectors)
> open-Xchange (as Josh pointed out but no Evolution)
> 
> Scalix
> http://www.scalix.com/index.html
> 
> Kolab
> www.kolab.org
> 
> OGo - OpenGroupware
> http://www.opengroupware.org/
> 
> Proprietary
> Novell Groupwise
> http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/?
> sourceidint=t2_products_solutions:%20Workgroup
> 
> BynariInsightManager
> http://bynari.net/index.php?id=7
> 
> Communigate Pro
> http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/
> 
> OfficeCalendar
> http://www.officecalendar.com/
> 
> Samsung Contact
> http://www.samsungcontact.com/en/
> 
> You might be interested in this link...
> http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm#other
> 
> And of course, if you are willing to dispense with the notion of these
> stupid fat clients...I would heartily recommend Horde/IMP/etc.
> 
> Groupwise (Novell) is the only mail server I know of that can support
> both Outlook and Evolution clients.
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for what it is worth, I have added this to the plug website (reviews)
and would hope that anyone who has first hand experiences with these or
others would want to chime in / add their commentaries as this is a
topic that comes up again and again

Craig