Re: Groupware program - a server to ?

[James Aylett <dj-gnome insigma com>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:31:23AM -0400, Sergey I. Panov wrote:

> > > When customers buy a program like Microsoft Exchange etc there are some
> > > primary things they want.(And this is something that they ALL want)
> > > 
> > > - Shared adresslists - This is probobly the most important
> > > - Shared calendars   - They want to be able to know what person b and person
> > > a are
> > > - Shared contacts	   - They want have a contact database with all
> > > sorts of different contactinfo
> > 
> > This would be great
> 
>  And you already can do that by having group calendar/adresslists file
> and personal calendar/adresslists files. The only desiered improvement is
> to be able to combine more then one file in one view(some kind of overlay).

That can't be done sensibly over a network though, can it? You need LDAP
(for address/contact records), or something similar for calendar information
(possibly using vcal entries in an LDAP database?) to get network
transparency here.

Doing things over NFS is not a decent solution.

Or am I missing something?

J

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