Re: Calendaring [was: Holy Shee-it]
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:20:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> Because I've been looking for a calendaring solution for 4 or 5 years,
> and have never found anything like the way we do things on campus. We
> used Schedule+ on Windows for years (and Mac users and Linux users were
> left with nothing), but with each new version of
> Windows/MSOffice/Outlook, it became harder and harder to keep the system
> working (because of under-the-hood breakage that Outlook introduced);
> finally this past December we declared Schedule+ dead. Since then, our
> campus solution has been the SunONE Calendar, but it's web-based, and
> has no pop-up appointment reminders, doesn't sync reliably with PDAs,
> and is just uncomfortable to use (being web-based). I really had high
> hopes for Mozilla Calendar, as it is cross-platform (Wow! Yippee!
> Boo-yah!), mostly does the shared calendar thing (but not with SunONE -
> arghghg!), nor does it have PDA sync. (And it currently doesn't have any
> active developers apparently).
Yikes...they could have had the best of both worlds with koffice/kontact.
> I'm not really interested in a single-platform solution such as
> Evolution or Korganizer (or whatever it's called), but if it works on
> Linux, it might be a foot-in-the-door method of swaying the campus away
> from Windows, because calendaring is very very very very important to a
> lot of people on campus.
I guess I should mention that I don't use Evolution and I thought we
were still talking about koffice and kontact. Mybad.
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