What program would you use to

[sswingle]

Ok, so this is a small office. Three or four users and a server. The server isn't running a server OS though, its got Windows 2000 Professional.
What they want to do is be able to have a calendar program like Outlook where one user can go in and input events, and then other users can log onto it with their computers and see whats going on. (read only)

A thought that immediately came to mind is maybe turn it into a webpage that gets saved to the server. The person creating the calendar saves it and a program turns it into a webpage, and then the other users just load up the shared htm file to see it. However, I have no idea what program would do this either.

Only other requirement is that it needs to be fairly inexpensive. They aren't wanting to spend hundreds of dollars on calendar software.

 

[DarkTXKnight]

I would so love to find out the answer to this too

 

[royaldank]

I'm just about done creating a simple .asp program for scheduling conference rooms around the office. It's nothing fancy and doesn't check for overlapping times. Just shows a calendar and highlights days the room is in use. You click a day and see all events scheduled and/or add a new event to the day. It's ASP with an access database.

 

[EvanAdams]

apple has a calender program designed exactly for that. It is part of .mac called iCal.

http://www.mac.com/1/ical.html

 

[Homerboy]

We use Office Tracker

 

[neit]

if you can put in some work into it, check out the plethora of free php based web calendars. slap on apache/php/mysql (not sure what all you'd need for each specific calendar program) on the server box and only let the local network access it for added security.

a quick search for 'calendar' on freshmeat yielded http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php

EDIT: after exploring their site a little more i found http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php?topic=Competitors , which points out a few competing calendar programs

 

[EvanAdams]

that webcalender thing sure is cool but I havce no idea how to use it.

such good open source options out there but I just have no idea how to get into it.

 

[neit]

EvanAdams,

The reason I know anything I do is because one day I sucked it up and gave up illegal software (including windows) and switched to linux for a bout a year and some change. I started with slackware, which gave me a headache on getting my display to work, but I eventually figured it out and become comfortable with config files and basic syntax stuff.

Basically, just decide some time that you want to give it a good try, and there are plenty of people that will help you on forums, mailing lists, and IRC. Oh, you quest for help will make you a master of google searching too =P