On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 16:21, levo wrote:
> > Get Evolution by Ximian. Not only does it offer a good group schedule it
> > is even compatible with Outlook (mail based schedule) and with Exchange
> > (if you buy the propritery connector).
> >
> I have a lot of windows machines, I need some web scheduluer server.
> To my knowliedge, Evolution is front-end , i.e. it is Client
> Do you mean that Evolution may be used instead of Exchange ?
OK, crash course in scheduling techniques (no not *THAT* kind of
schdule() ;-) ...
You can work with PIM in two ways: client/server and peer to peer.
For example, one can use Outlook for schedilng by having all the clients
connect to a server (Exchange) or one can use Outlook in a peer to peer
mode and have each one manage his own or her schedule but be able to
send/recieve apointments via mail. Outlook also has a feature to share
busy/free time via http/ftp/smb. if you use the peer to peer mode, you
don't need Exchange, just a working mail server and a shared file server
somwhere (this can be as simple as a windows share somewhere).
Evoulition follows a similar path - in peer to peer mode you work in a
similar way to Outlook.
Now, the really cool part is that Evolution and Outlook share calnders
in peer to peer mode in a mostly compatiable way - they both use a
standart format of vCal.
So... you can have your windows users use Outlook, have your Linux users
use Evolution and be happy.
There are some small details to make all this work seamlessly. For
exmaple Evolution for some stupid reason can't save the free/busy times
to a file just send them to an email, but a Perl script to get the email
and save them toa file like Outlook is trivial to write.
Also, if for some strange reason you want to use Exchange (altough I
would highly recommend aginst it) you can buy from Ximian, makers of
Evolutuion, (evolution is free in both beer and speech sense) a
connector that let's Evolution be used in client/server mode with
Exchange.
Other solutions also exists (from Bynari systems and HP OpemMail) but
IMHO the method described above is the best.
If you're interested in what happened in one company that tried to
implment this, the quote on my homepage might be... interesting :-)
Gilad.
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Qlusters ltd.
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