Which Shared Calendar Package Would You Use?

Bob McCown asks: "I manage several websites, both internally and externally accessible. Many of them have event calendars or schedulers. We'd like the ability to have these calendars shared, with the ability to modify them by both a web interface, and at the application level (via Sunbird, an Outlook plugin, or something similar). The web side of our system uses an Enterprise Linux distribution that runs Apache. Ideally, the web side would be written in PHP to minimize time to integrate with the rest of the sites. What's out there that can do this? What have you used before?"

Comments

Where everyone could see it, of course.

[Bromskloss]

Writing on the surface of the Moon.

Hive

[Anonymous Coward]

I work for a _very_ large software studio, and here we use The Borg Hive(TM).

Re:Thoughts on Zimbra, Sunbird, Exchange clones, e

[Anonymous Coward]

more useless web 2.0 fad crap. just use emacs.

If slashdot was a cooking forum...

[xtracto]

How can I prepare a boiled egg?

I am afraid you are asking the wrong question, you should not prepare a boiled egg, you should not EAT eggs beacuse they are bad for cholesterol. You'd better eat chicken, chicken is good for your health. But be aware of eating Free (as in wild) chicken and not those non-free chicken produced by Bachocco or any other vil corporation.

Re:below -- iCalendar support on Outlook

[BerntB]

Sounds like a good choice -- Microsoft is well known for promoting open standards and publishing protocols. You know your product won't stop working in subtle ways with other products in the next version.

Oh, by the way, I have a contract to sell the Golden Gate bridge for scrap? You could be interested... I promise a good price.

Me too!

[Skapare]

Hey, can I have /.'ers look for free software for me, for free, so I don't have to do my own googling?

Outlook+Exchange

[theonetruekeebler]

I use Outlook at work and it's fantastic for one simple reason: They screwed up the Daylight Saving Time shift so badly that for three weeks this spring I could skip meetings, show up late for meetings and keep undesirable bozos out of meetings, and if anybody asked what happened, all I had to do was mutter "Outlook" under my breath and all was forgiven.

I expect this will happen again in the fall. For all its silly, annoying, single-threaded, poorly implemented crap, if I can spend six weeks out of the year dodging meetings and actually getting work done, I'll forgive it every other flaw.