Ron Johnson wrote:
Moz calendar would be my preference, but Evolution would be great too, IF it ran on Windows and Mac as well as Linux, and IF it functioned as a front-end to Sun One Calendar. Over the years I've seen so many people looking for a calendaring solution that's cross-platform and isn't only web-based; I'm surprised such an animal doesn't exist yet. I guess it just goes to show that developers aren't "users", and vice-versa. Still, you'd think some commercial/proprietary product would rise up to meet the niche. I've heard about some of the Exchange replacement projects, but what's needed is not another back-end, but a front-end that works with one of several back-ends. Moz Calendar "wants" to be that front-end; they just don't have the developer man-power apparently to get there any time soon. And as you mention, syncing with PDAs will be a problem, as the Moz project doesn't have that down yet either.On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:21, Clive Menzies wrote:On (23/09/03 16:14), Shri Shrikumar wrote:On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:42, Clive Menzies wrote:A brief note in support. We have clients running MS Outlook (different versions); it, and the security updates issued for it seem to break their systems from time to time. We would love to move them to open source software but the lack of this functionality in debian is a significant obstacle (not the only one).Hi, I use evolution on sarge which is a very good clone of Outlook and has all the features like Calendar etc. Dont know about groupware features though but then there are lots of web based ones like phpgroupware.Thanks Shri Are there tools to interface with the various PDA's Palm and Compaq spring to mind. I think in terms of operating systems for PDA's there are: Palm, Symbian and Windows CE?There's a Palm-sync module, and a closed-source plug-in to let Evo attach to Exchange (2k, I think) servers.
So for you developers -- port Evolution to Windows and Mac and make it work with Sun One Calendar and sync with popular PDAs; then offer a 30-day trial version, then sell the full client for $25 per seat. Or offer a free version without backend/PDA syncing, and sell the add-ons, with a ten-day trial of the add-ons. Or do something similar with Moz calendar. With either product, you can keep the source open and available; just sell the binaries and support. Make money! Serve the Community! Make the world a better place!
-- Kent