Mac Calendaring Solutions?

ubercombatwombat asks: "I have been tasked with providing groupware for the administrative office at the school district, for which I am the network admin. Laetly, I have been searching in vain for an Entourage compatible groupware calendar solution. We have Communigate Pro, which was supposed to support Entorage by now, but doesn't. Meanwhile, I have placed HP 2410 iPaq's with The Missing Sync for PocketPC on the 10 desktops without groupware. Secretaries use Apple Remote Desktop, a few times a day, to update their bosses Entourage calendar. It is not the best solution, but it is all I can come up with, at the moment. Incidentally, we also have Brown Bear Software's excellent iCal product (yes, Apple licensed the 'iCal' name from them), but Brown Bear doesn't work with Entourage or Apple's iCal in a groupware role. As far as Exchange goes, I'd rather not use it. Does anyone have a Mac OS X groupware solution?"

Comments

Here are a few options...

[Urd]

http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/apps?f=groupware

Kerio

[akac]

Try Kerio's mail server if you must host your own. Or 4SmartPhone.net for hosted Exchange. I personally use CGPro as well because we need a solid mail backbone that is easy to administer, but otherwise we'd probably go with Kerio or 4SmartPhone.net. Both support Entourage in groupware mode as well as Outlook.

Re:Kerio

[CptTripps]

I REALLY agree. We had CommuniGate for years, and got sick of the licensing BS, and the lack of support for programs like you state above. Kerio is a GREAT app...and...

It supports iCal...and Address book...and does it well.

Not cheap, but if you already own CommuniGate...you are used to that. If you ask me, Stalker missed the mark by a MILE. the rested too long, and I can see Kerio taking a LARGE chunk of their already small marketplace.

CalTalk

[foniksonik]

While this doesn't solve your problem it may interest /. macheads out there....

CalTalk is a 'Bonjour' enabling app for iCal that lets you automatically share and find shared iCal calendars on the network. It only works on the local subnet because that's all Bonjour supports but that's just right for at home or at work use... ...though it does allow you to share iCal shares you've subscribed to from the internet ;-p which is nice, cause you can basically set up one Mac as a calendar server and have it subscribe to all the various published iCal files from external urls and share them out to the subnet for everyone else.

And of course it's a Free as in Beer app you can download now.

p.s. I'm not affiliated w/ the developer in any way

Zimbra.

[Anonymous Coward]

Zimbra.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=153217&package_id=170387

check out this thread on macslash

[mr_burns]

http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/25/113421 1&mode=thread

You may want to use the search on that site with a few other keywords. This subject comes along every once in a while so there's likely more than one thread about it.

Now Up-to-Date and Contact

[dn15]

Check out Now Up-to-Date and Contact. It's not exactly my favorite program, but it does the job. There's also a Windows version in case you have and PCs that need to connect. http://www.nowsoftware.com/

Meeting Maker

[KerberosKing]

Meeting Maker the server runs on Windows, Mac, Solaris or Linux. Native clients for Macs and PCs, Web clients for anything with a decent browser. Lots of good features like iCal or outlook integration, PDA sync, all sorts of cool bits.

There are a *lot* of OS X Calendaring apps

[Lproven]

Sticking with Entourage may be a problem, though.

You might want to look at or evaluate these:

Crm4Mc 2.0
    http://www.ibizzi.com/

DayChaser : Econ Technologies
    http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/DayChas er/daychaser_overview.html

DayLite : Marketcircle
    http://www.marketcircle.com/

ecOrganizer
    http://www.ecorganizer.com/

intuiware : HotPlan
    http://www.intuiware.com/

Now Software : Now up to date
    http://www.nowsoftware.com/

Organizer software by CSoftLabs
    http://www.csoftlab.com/

Pure Mac : Personal Information Managers
    http://www.pure-mac.com/pims.html

RadicalBreeze.com - Formation
    http://www.radicalbreeze.com/formation/index.shtml

SOHO Organizer
    http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohoorganizer.h tml

OD4Contact
    http://objective-decision.com/en/

Re:Web DAV?

[SlamMan]

iCal only handles publish and subscribe calendars. No actual syncing. Thus, no mutli-user editable calendars.