| phpGroupWare 0.9.14.000 http://www.phpgroupware.org | |
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| other links | http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/phpgroupware/ http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/phpgroupware-developers/2002-August/002146.html http://docs.axisgroupware.org/index.php?page=AxisSync |
| category | webbased, php; provides API client: webbased server: php, sql (e.g. mysql) |
| licence/costs | server: opensource (GNU General Public License (GPL)); client: nearly every web browser is suitable costs: nothing |
| documentation | in the manual app |
| marketing statement | phpGroupWare is becoming a top intranet/groupware tool and application framework. Our goal is to provide companies/universities/individuals with a complete, secure and flexible web based groupware framework for building their own custom applications. We are focused on creating a Free Software groupware API with the powerful programability of Lotus Notes. |
| installation | Online Demo: not available at the moment; http://www.phpgroupware.org/demo/login.php User/password: ??? Download: http://www.phpgroupware.org/index.php?page_name=downloads official installation guide: http://docs.phpgroupware.org/12-docs/html/admin/ details |
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| reliability of support | 5 Admins. 27 developers |
| pro | uses all standards (vcard, vcalendar) SyncML support clean modular software design messages about changes to ones calendar can be sent via email |
| contra | version 1.0 is some months in the future how to synchronise with outlook? CSV import/export would need to be programmed not designed for use on enterprise level: see http://docs.axisgroupware.org/index.php?page=TheFutureOFphpGroupware; but if OM only uses the phpGroupWare calendar application and only a maximum of 50 workstations is logged in to the server at the same time, it should be OK. |
| conclusion | depends on AxisSync (Palm synchronisation support), and on CSV implementation |
| decision | could be suitable / depends on other solution |
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| Microsoft Outlook 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/outlook | |
| other links | http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q179431 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q270044 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q180199 |
| category | client, windows groupware client client: windows software server: not included |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: belongs to Microsoft Office |
| marketing statement | A powerful communication and scheduling program, Microsoft Outlook version 2002 offers new and enhanced functionality that will improve your efficiency and make it easier to collaborate with colleagues. Support for multiple e-mail accounts, including MSN Hotmail, simplify the task of managing your information. Features like Propose New Time and Group Schedules makes it a snap to coordinate team schedules. |
| installation | Download: belongs to Microsoft Office details |
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| reliability of support | Microsoft is a huge company. |
| pro | is already installed with MS Office on all clients |
| conclusion | It either could be used with an HTTP server for publishing and subscribing free busy times of other calendars. But the current OM configuration does not work. Outlook 2000 requires the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard, which is for free, but only supported with Win98 and WinNT. Or it could be used as client for an Exchange server simulation. This normally requires a MAPI connector, which could be the Bynari Insight Connector, but this is too expensive for OM. Or it could be used with its CSV (Comma Separated Values) import/export functionality for synchronisation with another product, e.g. phpGroupWare. But programming effort is needed to import/export CSV files in phpGroupWare. |
| decision | could be suitable / depends on other solution |
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| Kolab / Free Software Groupware Project http://kroupware.kde.org/ | |
| category | Outlook/Linux client: Outlook and Outlook Bynari Connector or KDE PIM tools, Kroupware server: open source linux server |
| licence/costs | opensource, but uses outlook and bynari connector (Insight Connector 500 User Pack $11,000.00) costs: bynari connector |
| documentation | http://kroupware.kde.org/concept-1.0.1/index.html |
| installation | Download: only alpha version at the moment: ftp://master.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/server/kolab/kolab-current/ official installation guide: http://kroupware.kde.org/howto-kolab.html |
| pro | should work in some time with Kroupware on windows, without outlook |
| conclusion | At the moment only Outlook is supported as windows client, and it requires the Bynari Connector. Or wait for the KDE PIM port to windows, but the development of that has not started yet. |
| decision | promising, but still under development |
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| AxisSync 0.5.0 Alpha http://www.axisgroupware.org | |
| other links | http://docs.axisgroupware.org/index.php?page=AxisSync http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/axis/ |
| category | sync, synchronisation of palm and phpgroupware client: Palm Hotsync and Netsync server: phpgroupware, pgsql, coldsync |
| licence/costs | opensource (GNU General Public License (GPL)) costs: free |
| documentation | http://docs.axisgroupware.org/index.php?page=axissyncREADME |
| marketing statement | Axis Groupware is a groupware suite for workgroups and enterprise, built on phpGroupWare. Axis Groupware is not a fork of phpGroupWare, but rather a custom distribution of phpGroupware focusing on high quality, production deployment. AxisSync brings palm synchronisation to phpGroupware. |
| installation | Download: http://axisgroupware.org/axissync/axissync-0.5.0.tar.gz official installation guide: http://docs.axisgroupware.org/index.php?page=axissyncINSTALL |
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| reliability of support | 2 developers; Alpha 0.5.6 was released in the end of October; work is going on |
| contra | THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE! DO NOT USE THIS IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT! |
| conclusion | Not all conduits are available yet. |
| decision | promising, but still under development |
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| Samsung Contact 7.1 http://www.samsungcontact.com/en/ | |
| category | webbased & Outlook, server with client: webbased and outlook client: outlook, webclient, java client server: redhat linux is supported |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: 100 users, $62.05 each (some clients need also extra licenses) |
| documentation | locally saved, register and download |
| installation | Download: register and download official installation guide: see local version in manual/samsung (or register and download from website) details |
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| reliability of support | formerly HP OpenMail, was bought by Fujitsu, which sold it to Samsung. Samsung use the program in their own company. There was a new release of the MAPI connector in October. |
| decision | need to be considered concerning the costs |
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| ScheduleOnline Intranet http://www.scheduleonline.com/products_intranet.php?pn_id= | |
| category | webbased & Outlook client: webbased server: linux apache, windows |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: $44.50 per user license |
| installation | Online Demo: http://www.scheduleonline.com/products_intranet.php?pn_id= official installation guide: http://www.scheduleonline.com/Install.mysql.unix.txt |
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| reliability of support | The company uses this software to provide a calendar service on the internet. |
| decision | need to be considered concerning the costs |
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| WebEvent Team http://www.webevent.com/products/team/ | |
| category | webbased & Outlook server: requires perl program, mysql |
| licence/costs | costs: $1,200 for a 10-calendar/user license including Sync; Educational institutions and 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations are eligible for a 25% discount on WebEvent licenses |
| installation | Online Demo: http://demo.webevent.com/public/team/cgi/webevent.cgi |
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| conclusion | there were already charity prices on the website, so there was no need to send a special request |
| decision | even with discounts too expensive for OM |
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| Courier MTA / SqWebMail 3.3.7 http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/ | |
| other links | http://www.courier-mta.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/courier/ |
| category | webbased, webbased/CGI client: web browser server: program using CGI |
| licence/costs | opensource (GNU General Public License (GPL)) costs: none |
| documentation | see in sourcecode, pcp/README.html, some description of the calendar |
| marketing statement | SqWebMail is a web CGI client for sending and receiving E-mail using Maildir mailboxes. Calendaring services can be optionally enabled by the system administrator. When enabled, basic calendar management is available. NOTE: this is an experimental beta feature. This is the same webmail server that's included in the Courier mail server, but packaged independently The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, Webmail, calendaring, and mailing list services. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://webmail.inter7.com/ User/password: webmail@webmail.com/webmail Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/courier/ http://ftp.die.net/apt/redhat/7.3/en/i386/RPMS.extra/ |
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| reliability of support | one person is developing it (Sam Varshavchik). average of 1 release per month (from August 2001 to August 2002) A lot of people seem to use it, the users mailing list archive on Sourceforge contains more than 13000 messages. |
| contra | groupware calendaring is just experimental no use of standards like vCalendar, but own Personal Calendar Protocol |
| conclusion | experimental, just one developer no support of palm synchronisation |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| moreGroupware 0.6.4pl1 Neo http://www.moregroupware.org | |
| other links | http://sourceforge.net/projects/moregroupware/ |
| category | webbased, webbased/php client: webbased server: php, mysql |
| licence/costs | server: opensource (X11 license, which is GPL compatible); client: every web browser is suitable costs: nothing |
| documentation | no documentation yet available (just faq: http://www.moregroupware.org/faq.php) |
| marketing statement | Web-based groupware written in PHP4. Including modules like calendar, notes, todo, contacts, project management and others. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://demo.moregroupware.org/ User/password: admin/admin Download: http://www.moregroupware.org/download.php official installation guide: in the distribution archive of moregroupware, see docs/INSTALL details |
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| reliability of support | 18 developers on Sourceforge; very active community (19 open Bugs out of 610 Bugs); supported by several companies |
| pro | a good shared calendar module |
| contra | no update functionality yet, administrator is responsible for changing the database to the new structure |
| conclusion | This product is not ready yet. There is no guarantee for support of user data in future releases. no support of palm synchronisation |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| BSCW 4.0.6 http://www.bscw.de/index_en.html | |
| other links | http://bscw.fit.fraunhofer.de/ |
| category | webbased client: webbrowser, javascript server: Linux / windows program, using Python and CGI |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: schools and universities receive royalty free licences for educational purposes; others: e.g. 1000 user: 16.850,- EUR |
| documentation | http://bscw.gmd.de/bscw_help-4.0/english/ |
| marketing statement | The BSCW system supports collaboration by providing shared workspaces over the Internet. A shared workspace allows storage and retrieval of documents and sharing information within a group. This functionality is integrated with an event mechanism to provide each user with an awareness of the activities of others within the workspace. It comprises numerous features, e.g., support for threaded discussions, version management of documents, group management, search features and many more. The system is designed primarily to support self-organising groups. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://bscw.gmd.de/bscw/bscw.cgi User/password: get your own free account Download: http://bscw.gmd.de/InstallUnixServer.html official installation guide: http://bscw.gmd.de/InstallUnixServer.html details |
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| reliability of support | The project was started in 1995 by FIT Fraunhofer, belonging to GMD, the German National Research Center for Infomation Technology. OrbiTeam Software GmbH was founded in summer 1998 as a spin-off company of GMD. OrbiTeam offers support, maintenance and extensions of the system. Since 1995 more than 800 BSCW Servers have gone online. |
| pro | a lot of good calendaring and document sharing functionality |
| contra | synchronisation is not provided |
| conclusion | palm and outlook synchronisation is not available |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| PHProjekt 3.3 http://www.phprojekt.com | |
| other links | http://sourceforge.net/projects/phprojekt/ |
| category | webbased, php client: webbased (frame capable browser, javascript) server: php, sql (e.g. mysql) |
| licence/costs | server: opensource (GNU General Public License (GPL)); client: nearly every web browser is suitable costs: nothing |
| documentation | online help available |
| marketing statement | PHProjekt - an open source groupware suite PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and document via intranet and internet. "of course - open source" - PHProjekt is free software. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://www.phprojekt.com/demo/index.php User/password: english/english Download: http://www.phprojekt.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index official installation guide: in the phprojekt directory, file install details |
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| reliability of support | the project started in 2000, one person (Albrecht Guenther) is responsible for it. There are a lot of bugfixes. The program seems to have a big user community, it is translated in 25 languages. Several people have developed addons for the project. |
| pro | integrated resource booking chief status to modify someone else's calendar |
| contra | calendar: can only invite one person; no invitation of group members |
| conclusion | depends on synchronisation of calendar information with outlook / Palm |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| Tutos 1.0 http://www.tutos.org | |
| other links | http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos |
| category | webbased, php client: web browser server: php/mysql |
| licence/costs | opensource (GNU General Public License (GPL)) costs: nothing |
| documentation | http://www.tutos.org/documentation/book0/index.html |
| marketing statement | TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://www.tutos.org/php/mytutos.php User/password: linus/guest Download: http://www.tutos.org/homepage/download.html official installation guide: http://www.tutos.org/homepage/install.html |
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| reliability of support | 9 Developers, 1 Admin |
| pro | developed with a lot of details (e.g. everywhere are links, for example click on a participant, and you get to his details) a good documentation |
| contra | no palm synchronisation yet |
| conclusion | palm and outlook synchronisation is not available |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| TWIG 2.7.6 http://twig.screwdriver.net/about.php3 | |
| category | webbased, php client: web browser server: php |
| licence/costs | opensource (GNU General Public License (GPL)) costs: nothing |
| documentation | not available |
| marketing statement | TWIG is rapidly becoming a very useful intranet/groupware tool and application framework. It is written and implemented completely with the PHP programming language. Our intention is that it become a simple, cross-platform, fast, and browser-independent way to access or share almost any kind of information, without the complexity or costs of other intranet/groupware packages. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://twig.screwdriver.net/demo/ User/password: test/test Download: http://twig.screwdriver.net/download.php3 |
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| contra | no possibility for palm / outlook synchronisation |
| conclusion | no synchronisation |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| Teamware Office 5.3 Ed 4 for Linux http://www.teamware.net/Resource.phx/twoffice/index.htx | |
| category | webbased & client, webbased or windows client with linux or windows server client: webbased or windows program server: linux or windows server |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: no information online; see http://www.teamware.net/Resource.phx/uk/index.htx for addresses |
| documentation | http://www.teamware.net/dman/Folder.phx/download/office-for-linux/documents |
| marketing statement | Teamware Office is a complete, modular set of collaborative applications. It provides a robust and scaleable messaging environment combined with active information sharing, document management, and resource management functions. Teamware Office is a secure bridge between the merging network technologies. It enables teams to share and manage information in corporate intranets, supporting mobile and virtual office concepts, full Web integration, network security, corporate and public directories and connectivity for business applications. ... Teamware Calendar is a flexible time management tool that helps people organize group meetings and book shared resources like meeting rooms or common equipment. Several calendars and calendar groups can be viewed across the enterprise in a single intuitive user interface. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://office.teamware.com:8008/ User/password: John/john Download: http://www.teamware.net/Resource.phx/download/index.htx official installation guide: http://www.teamware.net/dman/Folder.phx/download/office-for-linux/documents details |
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| reliability of support | The Teamware Company belongs to Fujitsu. TeamWare Office is not the only product of this company. |
| pro | pda support for calendars |
| conclusion | offline client support is missing |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| Mozilla Calendar 0.8 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ | |
| other links | http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/requirements.html http://www.jsoft.com/Gary/calendar/ |
| category | client, free client software, calendaring client: integrated in Mozilla server: ftp, http |
| licence/costs | opensource (MPL/LGPL/GPL) costs: nothing |
| marketing statement | Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards-compliance, performance and portability. The Mozilla Calendar project is meant to create an open source, standards based calendar solution. It will be based on existing calendar standards: iCalendar, iTIP, and iMIP. The initial codebase is being donated by OEone Corporation and should be thought of only as a demonstration of what can be accomplished using XUL, JS, CSS and XPCOM. |
| installation | Download: see installation hints details |
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| conclusion | Palm support promised, but not availabe Free Busy Calendaring gives a error message, does not work at the moment |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| SKYRiX Web Groupware http://www.skyrix.com/ | |
| category | webbased client: webbased server: linux, requires Database: FrontBase, Oracle, Sybase |
| licence/costs | costs: Unlimited Edition 980 EUR |
| marketing statement | SKYRiX Web Groupware is web and data base based groupware solution for enterprises of every type and size. It connects classical groupware functionality with the advantages of the innovative technology of a web-based application server. A browser is sufficient in order to communicate with coworkers, customers, partners, suppliers and investors in the whole world, to work on common projects, to access the same documents and data, and to process and administer these platform-independently both enterprise-internally and externally. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://www.skyrix.com/en/demo/standard/index.xhtml |
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| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| intisoft Xentric groupware server http://www.intisoft.com/index.phtml?scp=soln_groupware | |
| category | webbased, based on Xentric XML Server server: no statement about server |
| licence/costs | commercial |
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| conclusion | no offline sync, or palm sync yet |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| MailStudio Calendar Server http://www.mailstudio.com/prod_cal_ov.html | |
| category | webbased & client client: webbased server: unix / Linux supported, Windows 2000 support is planned |
| licence/costs | commercial |
| installation | Online Demo: http://cal.mailstudio.com/index.cgi?lang=eng&tnum=2 User/password: guest/guest |
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| conclusion | no calendar synchronisation with offline client |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| Crosswind Cyberscheduler & Synchronize & CyberSync http://www.crosswind.com/ | |
| other links | http://www.envicon.de/cyberscheduler/cybersync/index.html |
| category | webbased & client client: webbased & clients server: linux or NT |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: see http://www.envicon.de/e/cyberscheduler/preise.html; no prices for Synchronize & CyberSync; 500 licenses; CyberScheduler & CyberSync 50 EUR; Synchronize: ??? DM |
| documentation | http://www.crosswind.com/feature3.htm |
| installation | Online Demo: http://www.crosswind.com/CyberSched/En_US/login.html Download: see http://www.crosswind.com/testlock.htm#synch and http://www.envicon.de/e/cyberscheduler/cybersync/indexe.html |
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| reliability of support | There seem to be two companies: Crosswind and envi.con; The price list of envi.con is not really helpful, still using DM; really bad integration of english translation |
| pro | realtime group calendaring |
| contra | not both offline client and palm sync |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| Groveware CAL/RM 2000SE http://www.groveware.com/products/crm2000se_overview.htm | |
| category | webbased |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| Great Hill Corporation: Calendars for the web 2.5.1 http://calendar.greathill.com/ | |
| category | webbased client: webbased server: linux/apache |
| licence/costs | commercial |
| documentation | http://calendar.greathill.com/calweb/cw_help/usermanual_frame.htm |
| installation | Online Demo: http://calendar.greathill.com/cgi-bin/calweb/calweb.cgi Download: http://calendar.greathill.com/dlarea.htm |
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| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| HTMLCAL http://www.htmlcal.com | |
| category | webbased, cgi client: webbased server: linux apache |
| licence/costs | costs: unlimited calendars: $400 |
| installation | Online Demo: http://www.htmlcal.com/demo/ |
| conclusion | not a useful calendar: only formatting calendar data |
| decision | missing synchronisation support |
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| BILL Workgroup Server 2.1.3 http://www.billworkgroup.org/billworkgroup/home | |
| other links | http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bill http://www.n-h.com http://www.nlcom.nl/NLcom/US%20Site/ |
| category | Outlook/Linux, outlook in combination with a linux server client: Outlook + MAPI Service Provider server: BILL Open Workgroup Server |
| licence/costs | Server software is opensource (GNU General Public License (GPL)), MAPI Service Provider is commercial, Outlook is commercial costs: Outlook belongs to MS Office; 39 EUR per MAPI Client |
| documentation | not available |
| marketing statement | N&H received more and more customer requests asking for a independent workgroup server solution running under LINUX, but using MS-Outook(TM) as the Client on the MS-Windows(TM) Desktop for use with shared calendars and task lists, etc, and not limited to e-mail. MS-Outlook(TM) uses a MAPI Service Provider to store workgroup data centrally in MS-Exchange(TM) database or other 3rd party messaging servers. Based on this, N&H decided to start an internal project that implements a storage server that can run on LINUX where different workgroup clients and other applications can exchange workgroup data. BILL Open Workgroup Server is now under the GNU public licence. |
| installation | Download: http://www.billworkgroup.org/billworkgroup/home/Download official installation guide: http://www.billworkgroup.org/billworkgroup/home/Doc/BillInstallLinux details |
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| reliability of support | N&H is a two man company, they sell the Easygate workgroup server, and support it. The opensource Bill Workgroup Server is part of the Easygate server, and is also developed by them and one other person. The Bill Server was put under GPL in February 2002. |
| pro | - |
| contra | main focus on small and medium sized workgroups: Bill has a poor performance with more than 30 accounts. no big community or company to support the product calendar functionality works just with shared folders. To see another person's calendar this person needs to give permissions to you. |
| conclusion | The supporting community of the BILL Server is too small, and the Easygate Server with support is not suitable for OM, since this is a standalone server and cannot be integrated with the OM Standard Linux Server. |
| decision | not enough reliability of support |
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| phpOrgaSync http://www.ds-services.de/portal/ | |
| category | sync, synchronisation of Outlook and PHProjekt client: Windows Programm (uses ODBC connection to server database) server: phprojekt |
| licence/costs | freeware, not opensource costs: nothing |
| marketing statement | This tool enables the user to synchronize his contacts and his schedule held in outlook with the open source groupware tool PHProjekt. |
| installation | Download: http://www.ds-services.de/portal/ |
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| reliability of support | 1 person, no opensource |
| contra | poor reliability |
| conclusion | not enough reliability, project depends on only one developer |
| decision | not enough reliability of support |
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| SyncBuilder Java Framework http://sourceforge.net/projects/syncbuilder/ | |
| category | sync, framework for synchronisation with palm |
| licence/costs | opensource (GNU General Public License (GPL)) costs: framework is free, but development of own software costs (at least time) |
| marketing statement | The SyncBuilder framework allows you to develop Java applications that can connect with Palm devices. It works independently from Palm Computing, Inc.'s HotSync technology and is not bound to a specific platform (some functionality currently requires native support code, that is only available for Unix and Win32). Its functionality includes the ability to read and write records from/to the Palm device, and to query information on the Palm device. It also offers special support for the built-in applications (Calendar, To-Do, Address book, Mail, Expenses, MemoPad). Finally, it can read and write .PDB and .PRC database files. It supports both the normal sync through a serial cable as well as the Network HotSync technology. SyncBuilder is a framework that allows you to develop synchronisation applications between a host machine running Java 1.1 or higher, and a Palm device. It is a complete replacement for Palm's HotSync Manager. |
| reliability of support | no community (last available version 1999) |
| contra | requires development of own software no current version available on the net, nobody's working on it (using it?) |
| conclusion | no community, requires own development |
| decision | not enough reliability of support |
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| eridu http://eridu.sourceforge.net | |
| category | webbased, php |
| conclusion | August 2001: Currently the Eridu project is on hold. |
| decision | not enough reliability of support |
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| Proiektor http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/Proiektor | |
| category | webbased, python |
| licence/costs | opensource |
| installation | Online Demo: http://imail.iuveno-net.de:8180/Proiektor/Instances/Demo User/password: demo/demodemo |
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| reliability of support | there seems to be nobody is supporting it / working on it (see nearly empty mailing list archive) |
| decision | not enough reliability of support |
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| Oracle Collaboration Suite http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/cs/index.html?content.html | |
| other links | http://www.steltor.com/products/ |
| category | webbased & Outlook, server in combination with windows or linux client: Outlook, webbased server: runs also on Linux, based on the 9i Application Server and the 9i Database |
| licence/costs | costs: $60 per named user |
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| reliability of support | On June 21 2002, Oracle bought the time-management software company Steltor (known for their CorporateTime product). Oracle also uses the experiences from their product Oracle Office which was not successful. |
| contra | no fixed shipping date (perhaps end of 2002) |
| conclusion | experimental |
| decision | experimental |
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| OpenOffice.org Groupware http://groupware.openoffice.org | |
| other links | http://www.opencap.org/html/ http://www.openoffice.org/files/documents/81/7727/groupwarefaq.htm |
| category | client, opensource client (LGPL/SISSL) client: integrated in the openoffice.org suite server: using an opensource calendar server (not existing yet) |
| licence/costs | opensource costs: nothing |
| documentation | no product yet available |
| marketing statement | To establish standard-compliant groupware solutions that will: Work from within the OpenOffice.org office suite Permit an easy migration from the current StarOffice 5.2 mail, news, schedule, and schedule server system |
| installation | Download: no product yet available official installation guide: no product yet available |
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| reliability of support | OpenOffice.org can't use the StarOffice 5.2 Schedule programs because they were 3rd party programs. So the people are working on integration of calendar functionality into their product, but this project is just in incubator state. They are searching what opensource programs (e.g. Mozilla Calendar) they can use, and see if they have to write an own calendaring server. |
| contra | The groupware project is in incubator state. |
| conclusion | this project is in a too early stage |
| decision | experimental |
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| UW Calendar Information Center 1.0.1 http://www.washington.edu/ucal/ | |
| category | webbased |
| licence/costs | opensource |
| documentation | http://www.washington.edu/ucal/require.html |
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| reliability of support | about 6 people working on it at the University of Washington |
| conclusion | under development (no group calendaring available yet, only personal calendar and public events work at the moment) |
| decision | experimental |
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| Chandler http://www.osafoundation.org/our_product_desc.htm | |
| category | client client: should run on Windows, Linux, Mac |
| marketing statement | Our product (code-named "Chandler" after the great detective novelist Raymond Chandler), is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) intended for use in everyday information and communication tasks, such as composing and reading email, managing an appointment calendar and keeping a contact list. Because of the ease with which Chandler users can share information with others, we might call Chandler the first Interpersonal Information Manager. (The term PIM was first used in conjunction with the product Lotus Agenda in the 1980's. Chandler is the spiritual descendant of Agenda (and has a common designer in Mitch Kapor.) |
| reliability of support | Open Source Applications Foundation: Mitchell Kapor, Founder of Lotus, has given $5 million dollar to this project, and is leading it. Also other big names are involved, e.g. Tim O'Reilly. They want to use as much existing open source software as possible. |
| conclusion | only design plans; first alpha version promised for end of 2002 |
| decision | experimental |
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| Schedule and Schedule Server - StarOffice 5.2 http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/whatsnew/schedule.html | |
| other links | http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/details.html#7 http://groupware.openoffice.org http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/6.0/whatsdifferent.html |
| category | outdated, client/server solution |
| licence/costs | costs: StarOffice 5.2 was free |
| marketing statement | Coordinate Schedules To Improve Collaboration Keep track of your time and tasks with this full-featured information manager. Store, access, and organize your scheduling and communication information quickly and easily on your desktop or your Palm OS-based personal computing device. |
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| reliability of support | Sun offered StarOffice 5.2 for free download, but when they released StarOffice 6.0, this free download was stopped. You still can get StarOffice 5.2, but you have to order it on CD. StarOffice 6.0 comes without the Schedule Client and Schedule Server and has no replacement: http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/6.0/migrationfaq.html#1q22 OpenOffice.org also can't use the Schedule programs because they were 3rd party programs. So the people are working on integration of calendar functionality into their product, but this project OpenOffice.org Groupware is just in incubator state. They are searching what opensource programs they can use, and see if they have to write an own calendaring server. They are not planning to support palm synchronisation: http://www.openoffice.org/files/documents/81/7727/groupwarefaq.htm see also http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/index.html |
| contra | Star Office 5.2 is not uptodate; StarOffice 6 doesn't contain the schedule application; OpenOffice is still working on this functionality. |
| conclusion | not available any more |
| decision | outdated |
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| Netscape Calendar Server http://wp.netscape.com/calendar/v3.5/index.html | |
| other links | http://wp.netscape.com/communicator/calendar/v4.0/index.html |
| category | outdated, client/server solution client: Netscape Communicator 4 Professional Edition with Calendar server: Netscape Calendar Server |
| reliability of support | Netscape Calendar is not longer available: http://sillydog.org/narchive/calendar.html Netscape Calendar Server also does not seem to be available anymore. Sun and Netscape are joined in an alliance, so there are no 2 calendar servers! http://wp.netscape.com/netscape/alliance |
| conclusion | outdated |
| decision | outdated |
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| Novell Groupwise 6 http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/ | |
| other links | http://www.gwuser.org/ |
| category | webbased & client, windows/netware server, client either dedicated workstation client or webbased client: runs on Windows, or web access, or palm device server: runs on Netware or Windows NT |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: 25 user $3,250.00 |
| documentation | http://www.novell.com/documentation/lg/gw6/index.html |
| marketing statement | Organizations simply can't run without e-mail, calendaring, document management and other collaborative activities. GroupWise 6 ensures these Net services are available wherever you are. Only GroupWise has wireless support 'out of the box'. You can use any WAP-enabled device or PDA to check e-mail, book appointments and share documents. |
| installation | Download: http://download.novell.com/download.jsp?pid=136&target=sdExpLic.jsp official installation guide: http://www.novell.com/documentation/lg/gw6/pdfdoc/gw6_install/gw6_install.pdf |
| conclusion | This server will not run on a Linux machine. |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| Microsoft Exchange 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/ | |
| category | non linux server, windows server, with Outlook as client server: runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server |
| contra | no linux support |
| conclusion | This server will not run on a Linux machine. |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| Sun Calendar Server http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/home_calendar.html | |
| other links | http://wwws.sun.com/software/product_categories/email_calendar_collaboration.html http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/faqs_calendar.html |
| category | non linux server, Sparc/Solaris, HP-UX, or Windows server, client webbased client: webbased server: runs on SPARC machines with Solaris, Windows NT 4.0, HP-UX 11.00 |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: $30.00 per installed Client |
| installation | Download: http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/email_cal.html |
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| reliability of support | This product was formerly called iPlanet Calendar Server. |
| conclusion | This server will not run on a Linux machine. |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| Opentext Livelink 9.1 http://www.opentext.net/livelink | |
| category | non linux server, webbased server: Windows or Solaris |
| licence/costs | commercial |
| functionality |
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| conclusion | no linux server support |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| Hyperwave Team Workspace http://www.hyperwave.com/e/products/tws.html | |
| category | non linux server, webbased |
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| contra | requires Oracle 8i (8.1.7) or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 |
| conclusion | server doesn't run on linux |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| ContactOffice http://www.contactoffice.com/ | |
| category | service provider, webbased service provider |
| functionality |
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| conclusion | no local installation of server possible |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| Caldera Volution Messaging Server Email Server Release 1.1 http://www.caldera.com/products/volutionmsg/ | |
| other links | http://www.caldera.com/products/volutionmsg/datasheet.html |
| category | Outlook/Linux, outlook in combination with a linux server client: outlook server: Platform: Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1 or Open UNIX 8 Release 8.0 with Linux Kernel Personality |
| licence/costs | commercial |
| documentation | http://docsrv.caldera.com:8457/en/Navpages/MsgDoc.html |
| marketing statement | Volution Messaging Server is designed to be compatible with the Microsoft Outlook and other mail clients. It comes pre-configured to support mail, LDAP address book, and busy-free calendar features of this popular mail reader. Major components of Caldera's Volution Messaging Server include an advanced mail agent, proven IMAP server, support for OpenLDAP, and built-in security. |
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| conclusion | no Redhat Linux support |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| Appointment Quest http://www.appointmentquest.com/ | |
| category | service provider, webbased service provider |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| appoint.net http://www.appoint.net | |
| category | service provider, webbased service provider |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| Calendar Internet 2002 http://aufrance.com/calendar.htm | |
| category | webbased server: runs on Microsoft IIS or O'Reilly WebSite |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| Calendars.net http://www.calendars.net/ | |
| category | service provider, webbased; supports Outlook |
| licence/costs | free for charities |
| marketing statement | Calendars Net currently provides over 50,000 interactive web calendars for free. Most of these calendars are for schools, churches, and other civic or social organizations, worldwide. We provide these calendars (and technical support) for free. |
| installation | Online Demo: http://www.calsnet.net/practice |
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| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| CalendarServer.com http://www.calendarserver.com | |
| category | service provider, webbased |
| contra | only publishing of personal calendar |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| FrontOffice Communications: DayPoint Enterprise http://www.daypoint.com/products/daypointent.asp | |
| category | webbased & Outlook server: Microsoft Server |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: Price per server, unlimited users: $995 |
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| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| eCal M1 http://www.ecal.com/products.asp?action=m1 | |
| category | webbased & Outlook client: webbased server: Sun Solaris, Oracle Database |
| licence/costs | commercial |
| documentation | http://www.ecal.com/documents/m1_ss_1.pdf |
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| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| www.huntcal.com http://www.huntcal.com/ | |
| category | service provider |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| www.e2do.com http://www.e2do.com/ | |
| category | service provider |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| www.localendar.com http://www.localendar.com/ | |
| category | service provider |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| www.smartcal.com http://www.smartcal.com | |
| category | service provider |
| conclusion | There is an enterprise version for intranets, but without further documentation |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| www.supercalendar.com http://www.supercalendar.com | |
| category | service provider |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| www.calendar.yahoo.com http://www.calendar.yahoo.com | |
| category | service provider |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| MDaemon http://www.altn.com/Products/Default.asp?product_id=MDaemon | |
| category | webbased server: Microsoft Windows 95 OSR2/98/ME/XP/NT/2000 operating system |
| decision | not suitable: no linux server support |
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| GNOME Ximian Evolution 1.0 http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/index.html | |
| category | client, linux groupware client client: linux client, GNOME server: either Exchange, or peer-to-peer |
| licence/costs | Ximian Evolution is opensource (GPL), Ximian Connector is commercial costs: Ximian Connector: 25 clients = $1449 |
| marketing statement | Ximian Evolution is the premier personal and workgroup information management solution for Linux and UNIX. The software seamlessly integrates email, calendaring, meeting scheduling, contact management and online task lists in one powerful, fast, and easy to use application. It supports peer-to-peer calendaring with users on products that support iCalendar, including Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. Ximian Connector is an optional add-in to Ximian Evolution that is now available for purchase. With Ximian Connector installed, Ximian Evolution functions as a Microsoft Exchange 2000 client, seamlessly integrated with Exchange calendaring and other mail storage and mail handling features. |
| installation | official installation guide: installed with Gnome |
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| conclusion | could be a good program for users that don't use Windows clients. |
| decision | not suitable: no windows workstation support |
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| KDE PIM application suite (with KOrganizer) http://korganizer.kde.org/ | |
| other links | http://pim.kde.org/ |
| category | client, linux groupware client |
| documentation | http://korganizer.kde.org/workshops/KOrganizerIMIP/en/html/index.html |
| marketing statement | KOrganizer is KDE's calendaring and scheduling program for organizing appointments, todo lists, projects and more. It is an integral part of the KDE PIM suite, which aims to be a complete solution for organizing your personal data. KOrganizer supports the two dominant standards for storing and exchanging calendar data, vCalendar and iCalendar. |
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| decision | not suitable: no windows workstation support |
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| ICQ Groupware 1.12 Beta http://www.icq.com/groupware/ | |
| category | no calendar, messaging tool (without calendar) client: ICQ groupware client server: program runs on WinNT (both server or workstation) |
| licence/costs | commercial |
| documentation | http://www.icq.com/groupware/specifications.html |
| marketing statement | The System is designed to support communications and collaborative work over Intranet. It comes with many internal functions such as group chats, online and offline messaging, collaborative browsing, file transfer, central message broadcasting and more. The System also supports many popular collaborating voice, video and data applications. The System is designed to support groupwork. It supports multi-user chats, multi-user collaborating browsing and multi-user messaging. The user can construct a list of members of his group and see at all times their online/offline availability. |
| installation | Download: http://www.icq.com/groupware/register.html |
| functionality |
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| contra | no calendar beta version |
| conclusion | no calendar |
| decision | not suitable: no group calendar included |
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| phpcollab http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpcollab | |
| category | no calendar, webbased collaboration software, no calendar |
| conclusion | no group calendar |
| decision | not suitable: no group calendar included |
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| BrownBear Calcium Web Calendar Server and TripleSync 3.7 http://www.brownbearsoftware.com/calcium/ | |
| other links | http://www.brownbearsoftware.com/calcium/TripleSync.html |
| category | webbased & client server: perl based, runs on linux (e.g. Apache) |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: triple sync unlimited copies: $1,500; Calcium: unlimited number of calendars, unlimited users, basic email: $395.00 |
| documentation | see http://www.brownbearsoftware.com/calcium/docs/ and http://www.brownbearsoftware.com/calcium/FeaturesList.html |
| installation | Online Demo: http://www.brownbearsoftware.com/calcium/demos.html Download: http://www.brownbearsoftware.com/calcium/download.html details |
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| pro | nice integrated solution of Handheld + Desktop + Web |
| contra | no real group calendaring; Desktop client has no access to several calendars |
| conclusion | If it was for free, then it would be worth consideration. But without real group calendaring but only multiple calendaring this is not suitable. |
| decision | not suitable: no group calendar included |
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| Bynari Insight Server 3.5.4 http://www.bynari.net | |
| category | Outlook/Linux, outlook in combination with a linux server client: Outlook+InsightConnector server: linux based server software (uses Cyrus IMAP server, Exim MTA, and OpenLDAP) |
| licence/costs | commercial (Outlook, InsightConnector, InsightServer) costs: Insight Server Standard Edition 25 User Base Pack (Special priced bundle package with Connector) = $600.00; 25 Additional Users License Pack = $495.00 |
| documentation | http://www.bynari.net/UserManual35.pdf |
| marketing statement | Bynari's InsightServer provides a centralized messaging and collaboration system running on Linux. It allows users to migrate from installed and running Exchange servers to an open source, RFC compliant model. With this program installed on a Linux server, combined with the Bynari InsightConnector installed on client workstations, users will be able to continue to use their existing Outlook interface with very few changes. |
| installation | Download: http://www.bynari.net/downloads.html official installation guide: http://www.bynari.net/insightserver35x_install.pdf details |
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| reliability of support | company was founded in fall 1998. InsightConnector and InsightServer were first released in 2000. a lot of detailed documents show the reliability of the company and the product |
| pro | cheaper than Microsoft Exchange |
| contra | email server causes problems with sendmail |
| conclusion | That would mean for OM to change the current sendmail configuration to exim. |
| decision | too difficult to integrate with current OM solution |
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| Meeting Maker 7.1 http://www.meetingmaker.com | |
| category | webbased & client client: supports mac, win, solaris, and webinterface server: solaris, win, mac, linux (with X11) |
| licence/costs | commercial costs: mailto:europe@meetingmaker.com |
| documentation | http://www.meetingmaker.com/support/ |
| marketing statement | Meeting Maker, Inc.'s meetingmaker is a real-time, cross-platform calendaring & scheduling solution. |
| installation | Download: http://www.meetingmaker.com/sales/trial official installation guide: http://www.meetingmaker.com/support/ details |
| functionality |
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| reliability of support | The company Meeting Maker Inc. has been working with real time calendaring for over 12 years. |
| contra | graphical interface for server administration required |
| conclusion | OM Standard Linux works without graphical interface. |
| decision | too difficult to integrate with current OM solution |
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| Suse Mail Server 3.1 http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/suse_business/email_server/index.html | |
| other links | http://www.skyrix.com/en/products/packages/emailserver3/index.xhtml |
| category | webbased & Outlook client: webinterface based on Skyrix; Outlook supported server: linux based; Skyrix |
| licence/costs | commercial; Yast Lisence costs: US $999.00 |
| installation | Online Demo: http://emailserver3.suse.de/perl/login.pl?doit=login&lang=EN |
| functionality |
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| decision | too difficult to integrate with current OM solution |
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| SuSE Linux Groupware Server with Lotus Domino http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/suse_business/groupware_server/index.html | |
| category | webbased & client, commercial server and client software |
| licence/costs | costs: see http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/suse_business/groupware_server/prices.html |
| marketing statement | SuSE Linux Groupware Server makes use of the enterprise operating system SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 with the new Linux kernel 2.4.18. Lotus Application Server 5.0.10 provides efficient tools for
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| reliability of support | see also SuSE Linux OpenExchange Server: http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive02/openexchange.html; it is announced to be available in mid of November |
| conclusion | overkill of functionality |
| decision | too difficult to integrate with current OM solution |
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| (IBM) Lotus Domino / Notes http://www.lotus.com/products/r5web.nsf/webhome/nr5noteshp | |
| other links | http://www.lotus.com/products/r5web.nsf/webpi/Notes?opendocument&cwesite=notes http://www.lotus.com/products/r5web.nsf/webhome/nr5serverhp-new |
| category | webbased & client server: domino runs on linux, Windows, ... |
| documentation | see http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/today.nsf/lookup/notes_rnext_technical_overview and http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/today.nsf/lookup/domino_rnext_technical_overview |
| conclusion | overkill of functionality |
| decision | too difficult to integrate with current OM solution |
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