[colug-432] calendar server

[Travis Sidelinger]

Take a look at Zimbra open source edition.

http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/os-downloads.html


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
> Hoping that I have not asked this hear.
> I looked through my own email archives and did not find it.
> What do y'all like for calendar servers?  and why?
>
> I use Googoo Calendar ... a lot.
> But I try (hard) to not be locked in to any one service.
> So I am excited about Google's use of CalDAV.  I can connect
> Thunderbird or Evolution or ... whatever else ... to their service.
> And at some point, maybe, I can run my own server at home
> and own the content again.  (Which I still do with email,
> but it is getting harder and harder to maintain.)
>
> But here's the question.  Since my boss is even more paranoid
> than I am (about where our data sits), no way will he let us use
> Google Calendar for company stuff.  And one of my teammates is
> in need of a shared calendar.  So I am going to recommend that we
> run a server on one of our own machines.  But should I install
> CalDAV or iCal ... or something else?  It will have to talk to
> the various desktop calendar clients (TB and Evo, but also Mac).
>
> The best candidate system to host this is an OpenSuSE machine.
> Certainly we could also go with Fedora.  But I'm not the only guy
> who would have to maintain it.  So what calendar server packages
> run equally well on either?  (I am resistant to using Debian or
> variants for this job.  Again because it's a team thing.)
> So I'm looking for ease of maint also.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- R;   <><
>
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