Groupware/calendar program for office?

edmicman

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May 30, 2001
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Hi, hopefully someone can offer me some insight here. I'm in a small office (~10 people), we currently have our own inhouse mail server, running linux, and use Eudora as our email client. Part of the staff manages our clients using ACT! 6, and they have Palms as well.

We're looking for some way to coordinate calendars so that anyone can see what anyone else's schedule is, etc., and also be able to sync with the Palm Pilots, too. We're thinking about maybe using Outlook 2003, but does that require an Exchange server to do this? We don't really want to have to install Exchange. Are there other (open source maybe?) things out there that would work? If we did move to Outlook, we'd probably drop Eudora and use Outlook as the email client, too, though the security stuff scares me....maybe thats not as much of an issue any more? Coordinating with ACT! isn't that big of an issue; I'm not even sure if theres anything like that out there.

Guess what I'm looking for is any suggestions or ideas. Thanks!
 

edmicman

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any more ideas? So to do it with Outlook requires Exchange to be installed? How much resources does Exchange require?
 

PingSpike

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Exchange server is expensive and probably overkill for what you need. Its been awhile, but I was looking at a program called 'workgroup share' or something like that awhile back that sounded like it would give you group calendar support without an exchange server. I think it might only work for outlook email client. Sorry I'm not of much help, I haven't researched it much yet. Here's a starting point link.

Starting point