[Evolution] Re: Advice needed for Exchange-like calendaring

[Bryce Harrington <bryce osdl org>]

In case it helps anyone else, here's the info we'd collected previously:

- SuSE OpenExchange
  http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/suse_business/openexchange

"The creation of group appointments is not yet possible in MS Outlook."
price: $1249

- Exchange4Linux
  http://www.billworkgroup.org/billworkgroup/home

This one is unclear from documentation if the calendar would fully work.
price: GPL

- Bynari InsightServer
  http://www.bynari.net

Looks like this would work with Outlook 2k but questionable for Outlook XP
price: 25 user license: $699.00

- Samsung Contact (formerly HP OpenMail)
  http://www.samsungcontact.com/

Website is not answering...


I've browsed back through a few month's worth of this lists' archives,
but didn't see anything relevant; if anyone recalls a discussion on this
and could give a rough timeframe of when it occurred I'll go try to dig
it out.

Thanks,
Bryce

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> At OSDL we're trying to come up with a calendaring solution but are
> running into trouble.  We're wondering if others have gone through this
> before, and could provide some advice.
>
> Up 'til now we've run a pretty much all-Linux shop except for a few
> desktops.  The desktop Windows users now want to be able to do
> calendaring with Outlook, just like they could with an Exchange setup.
> While most of the company uses Evolution/Pine/Et al, it's the Outlook
> users that are going to drive this decision.
>
> The functionality needed:
>
>       From inside of outlook:
>       1) From inside of outlook. Create a
>          meeting by selecting a list of attendees
>          and having the tool (outlook) display
>          the available times.
>
>       2) Be able to designate a proxy for a person,
>          that person should get a copy of all meeting
>          requests and be able to respond as the person
>          requested for the meeting.
>
>       3) And of course sync up with the individuals
>          outlook/Evolution calendar when they get
>          back online. e.g. You can make appointments
>          without the individual actually being online
>          at the time of the appointment.
>
> Have others been able to fulfil these features using something other
> than Exchange?  #2 looks like it requires something server-side to
> handle the ACL.
>
> Bryce