for quite some time the gating factor preventing calendar application interoperability has been the lack of a calendar/scheduling protocols and a specification. this has come a long ways in the last year or so within the CALSCH WG[1]. the new apple iCal (to be available in the next release of OS X) and a handful of other mom and pop calendaring packages have been using this spec. as of late. it might be interesting to see if someone comes up with a standards based plug-in for outlook (or *gasp* if MS came out with support for it - i wouldn't hold my breath for this) which would enable the community to crack the server nut and allow folks to actually replace exchange with a suite of open protocols and servers. harass your favorite calendar software vendor for iCal support. as martha stuart would say - it's a good thing. when last we saw our hero (Thursday, Jul 25, 2002), Ben Lutgens was madly tapping out: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 06:52:16AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > > > >Year to a Year and a Half, Two years at most. Thats my guess until > >an open source open-standards calendaring solution is out there. > >Mozilla having a decent calendar and evolution are both real good > >reasons as why this will happen eventually. > > People have wanted this for many many moons, but alas it's not come > to pass. Don't hold your breath scott :-( references ---------- [1] - http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020805/d95f3d18/attachment.pgp