On Wednesday 24 July 2002 11:34 am, Carlos Eberhardt wrote: > Joel Rosenberg wrote: > > Realistically, if you're going to be having folks running Windows boxes, > > you're going to have to support Exchange Server, will be less than trying > > to use any of the few available *nix groupware applications. As somebody > > else pointed out, the scheduling stuff is the bottleneck. Email can be > > handled easily with any number of servers and applications -- but, with > > all its faults, Exchange does do a good job of group calendaring and > > scheduling, particularly the negotiation part, and I've not been able to > > find a *nix replacement that works with Outlook -- and you're not going > > to get everybody involved to drop Outlook, more than likely. > > The Horde Project (http://www.horde.org/) looks like it has plans to > eventually get there, but no timelines. Yup. And it'll eventually get there, perhaps -- look at openoffice.org -- but it'll be awhile . . . and I think it's safe to predict that Microsoft will attempt to keep the Outlook calendar/task request format a moving target.