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

[Guillaume Girard <ggirard about org>]

What about SuSE server ?

Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2003, Daryl Manning wrote:
>
> > Did anyone try jiCal for what this guy is trying ? It doesn't even
> > require you to use JBoss anymore, you can just set a cron job every
> > couple of minutes to go through the directories and pick up changed
> > information.
>
>
> Actually we did take a look at JiCal, although we did not get to the
> point of installing it.  It looks like it would be very good for the
> Linux-side integration into the system, because it is able to take the
> iCalendar files generated by evolution, et al and generate free/busy
> files for them.  These could then be stuck onto the WebDAV freebusy
> repository.  I'm going to put it to the test next week once we've got
> the rest of the framework figured out.  I'll report my results.
>
> Note that the free/busy information is very terse compared to a regular
> calendar.  We have not yet figured out how to get outlook to emit its
> complete calendar in iCalendar (or vCalendar) format, although I expect
> there's a way...
>
> By the way, yesterday we installed and tested out exchange4linux, a
> GPL'd Exchange server replacement.  For the client-side you use a
> (commercial, closed source) Outlook plugin.  The exchange4linux server
> has a packaged demo version that works in a chroot environment that's
> fairly simple to set up for evaluation.  We were able to get everything
> installed and configured easily enough but afterwards Outlook would hang
> big time.  We later figured out that Norton Antivirus may have been
> getting in the road; we haven't re-tried it with NAV disabled but
> probably will give it a shot next week.
>
> We also began testing out SamsungContact, which promised all the
> features we were looking for.  We were astounded by the many processes
> it uses; it includes its own LDAP, Antivirus, and a lot more.  It seems
> to work but we've only tested it on a single client so far.  We'll do
> more thorough testing next week.  I don't know what the pricing is for
> this; we've sent in a request for a quote.
>
> Another program that we're going to evaluate is Crosswind's Synchronize,
> which one of us had used at a previous place of employment.  We've sent
> a request for an evaluation copy.  It's $100 per client.
>
> Bryce
>
>
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