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  1. Re:Apple by stormy_petral · · Score: 2, Informative · on Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark

    Apple got into the music business alright, some 25 YEARS after originally taking on the Apple name for a tiny garage-based company in a business that at the time seemed very unrelated to selling Beatles music. And ultimately Apple Computer PAID an undisclosed sum (translation: a boatload of cash) for the right to use the name in music marketing. Apple and Apple did have an agreement prior to the most recent one, its just that Apple Comp eventually grew out of it, and it had to be settled again, and indeed it was.

    Actually, Apple DID grab a very related trademark: the iCal name was already in use for some time by another software calendar maker, Brown Bear software. The Brown Bear software site now explicitly states http://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalfaq.html that Apple is using the iCal mark by license, and brownbear is still selling their own product with the iCal name. All without benefit of any headline lawsuit that I ever saw.

  2. Calcium by alanshot · · Score: 1 · on Which Shared Calendar Package Would You Use?

    We use Calcium Calendars. Pretty good, especially if you want a few read/write users with default read only public access.

    http://www.brownbearsw.com/calcium/

    Also supports iCal, user notifications/reminders, etc.

    it also wont break the bank, starting at just under $200.

  3. Re:iCal ripoff by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 1 · on Google Calendar

    Wrong. "ical" the name of a data standard.

    Apple actually licenses the name iCal from Brown Bear Software.

  4. No one has mentioned. by /dev/trash · · Score: 2, Informative · on How To (Really) Share A Simple Calendar?

    Calcium

    Which runs on Windows and Linux.

  5. Brown Bear by Bastian · · Score: 1 · on How To (Really) Share A Simple Calendar?

    My college used a web-based calendar program by Brown Bear Software. It was pretty bare-bones as far as aesthetics, but wasn't lacking in features, and played fairly well with stuff like Outlook in that it supporeted import and export - no automatic synchronization, of course.

    It has a pretty good system for modifying others' calendars, setting up meetings, stuff like that.

  6. Re:Outlook 2003 by Weh · · Score: 1 · on Where is the Killer Calendar?

    there's also a nice windows version (free for personal use).

  7. iCal by cliffyqs · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Client/Server Calendar Program?

    We use iCal from brown bear software. Cheap, works well, can handle multiple calendars, each with multiple people, accessible by web browser. they are here http://www.brownbearsw.com/

  8. iCalendar support by Black+Perl · · Score: 1 · on iCalendar, Project Management, Agenda, CVS and Perl?

    I recently found a perl calendar app that supports iCal. Take a look at Calcium, by Brown Bear Software.

  9. Re:uh... by CXI · · Score: 1 · on Apple Releases iCal

    Yeah, and iCal is also a Windows based web calendar server. What, does Apple block employees from Google or something?

  10. Re:Calendaring server is what we need by johnjones · · Score: 2 · on Mozilla.org Announces Open Source Calendar

    a quick search came up with

    iCal 3.5
    A very dynamic calendar utility that allows you to post dates on your Intra/Internet. November 3rd, 2000 Shareware 1.5MB win32

    http://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/icalpage.html

    ICal 2.2
    ICal is a popular X-based calendar and scheduler application. September 28th, 1998 256.6K

    http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/pdp/ose/asis/products/TCL/i cal-2.2/ical.html/

    JetSync 1.0
    Synchronizes your email, calendar (ical), memos and addresses and enables conduits for other types of data. February 22nd, 2000 GPL 213.3K
    (I could not find the webpage but palm links to it)

    http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~frias/jetsync/

    Syncal 0.5
    Syncal reads a current ical calendar file, an archived ical calendar file, and a Palm(TM) device DateBook database. April 12th, 1999 GPL 26.1K

    http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/syncal/

    lib ICAL 0.23
    Lib ICAL is an open source implementation of the IETF's iCAL Calendaring and Scheduling protocols. March 28th, 2001 MPL 567.9K

    http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/syncal/

    yes I think that there is a lack of servers you can build yourself

    companys often want to run servers on their intranet and dont want to far it out to a outside source (palm sells alot of their enterprise servers which do syncing)

    personally the only app that runs this well and gets messaging right has been Lotus Notes Domino

    frankly it rocks and I am surprised that Ximian have not picked up on this they have a client but no server and the server is where the money is !!

    regards

    john jones