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Those features you are speaking of also exist in Meeting Maker. (http://www.meetingmaker.com/)

I use Googles /ig page, and when my browser opens I can see at a glance my email, my calendar, and top headlines via RSS feeds from a dozen different websites. All on one page. Why wouldn't you use a customized portal??

As far as I've been able to tell, nothing does the group scheduling other than Exchange in any decent form.

Meeting Maker can do group scheduling. It works quite well and there are clients available for Windows/Mac/Linux. When scheduling a group meeting, the client will render a parallel timeline of a given day for all participants, allowing you to choose the best time when everybody (or at least most people) are free. I'ts not free software (in any sense) though.

On a larger scale, Oracle calendar also has group scheduling. (Its clients are also available on Win/Mac/Linux.)

It's been a while, but for shared calendaring we used to use Meeting Maker. It is licensed per-user, allows shared calendars, and also allows each person to assign editing privileges to their person calendar so one person can have either a single person or the entire user base in their list of allowable contributors.

I remember it being pretty nice for cross-platform use and had a built-in web interface as well.

Check out MeetingMaker. Runs on Linux on the server and clientside.

http://www.meetingmaker.com/products/webevent/welc ome.cfm/

I use Meeting Maker. It is cross platform (servers run on Windows, OS X, Solaris, and Linux).. clients are Windows, OS X, and HTML.

It is everywhere.. I'm surprised I don't hear it talked about more often.

http://www.meetingmaker.com/

Cisco is one of our clients. We started using Meeting Maker for calandering after using it with Cisco. Meeting Maker supports Linux, and Mac OS (which is what we are using it on, so obviously I must be wrong about everything).

The word is Cisco just dropped the cross platform solution and went to Outlook.

nnooiissee

http://meetingmaker.com/

Meeting Maker is a semi-reasonable cross-platform alternative to exchange for calendaring. They support the mac well, and they have a java/web client. They have a (motif) solaris client for the older versions which they never ported to linux, i think that this has been discontinued with the current version. However I think they have something more coming with the upcoming product.

You can make the windows client work in Wine, and the web/java client works standalone with a 1.3.1 JVM.

The server runs on windows, mac, solaris, and linux.

It originally was a mac product.

There is also something called Corporate Time, I'm not really familiar with it.

OpenGroupware's had some good reviews, at opengroupware.org.

Personal favorite, though, is Meetingmaker.

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free/busy scheduler. Calendar, new appointment, select a few co-workers, pick a time. You can see if they're busy at that time or not. Timezone synchronization is automatic. Select some resources as well, like a conference bridge or a video projector -- you can see if it's in use at that time. This is the killer app of Exchange.

--quote-- Where I work, we use MeetingMaker, which seems to work pretty well, and does all of the calendar functions you describe.

Todd

...integrating e-mail and calendaring into the same window?

I understand the legitimacy of being e-mailed new/change meeting requests, etc., but WTF is this irrational draw towards Outlook? Why isn't WebCalendar (or Meeting Maker for that matter) and your favorite desktop mailer (or SquirrelMail and your favorite browser) an equally good solution? Please don't tell me it's because of those gawd-awful blackberry things.

...as soon as you've visited MeetingMaker's web site.

Real-time scheduling, planning, organising. Scalable, cross-platform, web-enabled.

chomp, chomp, ...

Try Meeting Maker, they have a version of their server for RedHat but unfortunately do not yet have a native client for any variant of Linux. But they do have a java client which you can use to access the server view your favorite browser. For years they have had a rock solid server and client for Solaris, you can set the client up on a server for multiple user access and log into the client via X without any problems.

I've recently had to bring up a Win2k Server box with Exchange 2000 for the SOLE purpose of being able to do group calendaring - that is, the ability to:

[snip, list of features]

Nobody has to use Exchange. Those that do, condemn themselves to solitary Windows confinement, and pay dearly. Initially, as well as continously after first investments.

Discliamer: I worked for a previous incarnation of the company many years ago on a different product line.

There's a product called Meeting Maker that allows controlled, user initiated proxy (viewing of someone else's calendar). *And* it runs on Windows, Mac, PalmOS, Java and UNIX.

It even scales to thousands of users and runs on various server platforms too...

No, I don't work for them or own any stock.