Quoting Kevin Konowalec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On May 31, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > >> >> To add my own take on this: it sort of depends what you mean by >> "communicate with exchange". Microsoft makes it very hard to talk to >> exchange from non-microsoft clients, and for good reason - it's their >> lock in feature. They put a lot of work into calendaring before other >> companies or the open source community had anything comparable, and >> that's why people use Exchange - I've never heard of anyone using it >> for the mail server, for example. >> >> On the other hand it's gotten a lot better at playing nicely with >> things like iTip, as has IMP. So maybe you could clarify what you'd >> need? Do you really need to take the administrators off of exchange in >> order to give the students Kronolith? >> >> -chuck >> -- > > > No... what we'd need is for students to be able to view calendars and > book meetings and whatnot between Kronolith and Exchange. > Essentially we have a bunch of departments/faculties as well as > administration that refuse to give up exchange (for the usual > ridiculous reasons). The rest of the faculties/departments and the > student body could use Kronolith. Ideally there would be a way to > talk between the two in some meaningful way. That's not to say we > wouldn't deploy Kronolith for the students anyway... but things would > go a lot smoother for us if we could include exchange in the mix > somehow.
Well, if someone wanted to write a binding (don't know if it is possible or not) between Novell Connector (http://www.go-evolution.org/Exchange_Architecture) and PHP, for example, that would go a long way towards implementing this kind of support. ___________________________________ Michael Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- IMP mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#imp Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
