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Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling?
Jim R. Wilson writes "In past jobs, I've used Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, Novell Groupwise, and Google Calendar for handling business appointments. I'm sorry to say it, but I have yet to see a rival to Microsoft's scheduling features. On Slashdot I have occasionally read rumblings that there are better open source email and calendaring solutions out there. Can anyone substantiate this claim? What are the OSS alternatives? Can any compete with Microsoft's resource scheduling?"
I've recently become a fan of Google Calendar ever since I found out that it could be read from and written to within Thunderbird (using the Lightning calendar extension, and the Provider for Google Calendar add on). I wouldn't suggest it as a business solution, but for personal use, it works well. I'm not really a fan of the google calendar web interface, but now I don't really have to deal with it, and my changes are replicated to anywhere I've got the plugins installed.
Anyways, my $.02. More directions here.
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When I have a problem and I google for a solution and find nothing I think that my problem isn't really a problem. The reason could be my inexperience or my need for more rest! I think the same logic could be applied to the lack of a quality oss "calendar". The people using oss just do not care very much about that. This kind of software is more for the "suites" spinning around chewing air in the big corps.