Thinker wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Email, Calendar, Scheduling, Address Book, synchronization (without Outlook)' on Tue, Aug 17 at 09:18:
Thanks Neal.
I was, however, hoping for a 'lower cost' solution. Lower cost as in a lot closer to free. Something I could just install on a spare machine and let it run; or something I could install on a web server.
Any ideas?
You might look into the horde applications at horde.org. Their calendar app, kronolith, has shared calendar support and ical support in the CVS version, which would do what you need if it works. I'd assume that it works reasonably well. Kronolith integrates well with IMP - their webmail application (I like IMP, having used it under prety heavy load years ago with no problems). Both integrate nicelu with Turba, which is their contact management system (use the DB of your choice for a backend, possibly LDAP). There's a couple of other web-based groupware apps out there that are similar. Go over to freshmeat.net and search for groupware, or hit google up. Any of those apache/php/mysql solutions will run under windows or linux, etc, so you don't *have* to set up a linux box. But if it's gonna be a server that needs to be reliable, you know what *should* be done... :) --Danny