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?"

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Re:Broaden your search

[ScuzzMonkey]

I dunno if this is what the grandparent was getting at, or if you are ignorant as to the BSD underpinnings of OS X and the relative ease of compiling *nix based code for it, but there is an awful lot of Unix-based software that has already been ported over to OS X via the DarwinPorts, Fink, and other projects, so it's not really a bad suggestion. I use a lot of desktop programs on my Mac which are traditionally associated with Linux and might not turn up in a search for OS X only software--but they work great on my Powerbook. I can't say for server-side solutions but it's certainly worth taking a look.