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

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.

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

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/