I'm not familiar enough with Exchange or the others to comment on features. Have you looked an Lotus Notes from IBM? Notes is the client peice, Domino would be the server backend.
Resource scheduling is built in. One example is the Resource Reservation database. This can be items as mundane as "who has what projector" to tracking which VP can book what conference room. As for calendaring, Notes has supported the iCal standard since 6.5.6 (?) so you can make a meeting entry in your calendar, send it to your business contacts who are using Outlook 2k3.
If you have to use the Outlook client, Domino can talk to it as well. It's called DAMO (can't remember what that stands for) and costs one extra client license.
I agree it's not open-source. Domino does run on Linux, Windows, AIX, and others. IBM has made a fair commitment to the open-source community by it's business decisions. As for the cost, I think it'd be worth the effort for you to get a quote as it may not be as expensive as you think. Stated differently, the quality of the support is worth the cost.
Try the second or third link down in the middle of the page. The second link is for version 8. The third link is for version 7. You have to register to create the webmail account information. Software Demo Link:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/demos/
Full Disclosure: I do NOT work for IBM or any of it's partners. I do make my living as a Notes admin so there's my bias.
Quote:
"When there's too much on your hard drive, you'll have a harder time finding things when you need them..."
Was anyone else blinded by this flash of the obvious?
Or marbles:
"Another form of mechanical voting system is used in Gambia, where marbles are placed in a machine to indicate votes for candidates. The machine calculates the number of marbles allocated to each candidate."
from ace project
New Jersey Institute of Technology has partnered with Smith and Wesson to develop this technology back in 2001.
Quote: "SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - Saf-T-Hammer Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SAFH -
news), the Scottsdale, Arizona-based firearm safety and security company, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Smith & Wesson
Corporation, has announced a partnership with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). In a formal agreement signed July 18, 2001, Smith &
Wesson agreed to work with NJIT towards integrating the university's biometric identification system into the electronically fired Authorized-User-Only prototype handguns that use ammunition developed by Remington Arms. The NJIT approach is a different technology from other
biometric identification systems being evaluated by Smith & Wesson."
Reference this link. [iansa.org] IMHO - the New Jersey legislature is just creating a need for S & W new products.
Didn't he also say one time:
"I don't want to run a company, I'm not good at managing people. You have a problem with the guy in the next cubicle? I don't care. Shoot him or something." Marc Andreessen, May 97
No wonder he wants to automate the IT department. He's killed off his sysadmins.
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I'm not familiar enough with Exchange or the others to comment on features. Have you looked an Lotus Notes from IBM? Notes is the client peice, Domino would be the server backend.
Resource scheduling is built in. One example is the Resource Reservation database. This can be items as mundane as "who has what projector" to tracking which VP can book what conference room. As for calendaring, Notes has supported the iCal standard since 6.5.6 (?) so you can make a meeting entry in your calendar, send it to your business contacts who are using Outlook 2k3.
If you have to use the Outlook client, Domino can talk to it as well. It's called DAMO (can't remember what that stands for) and costs one extra client license.
I agree it's not open-source. Domino does run on Linux, Windows, AIX, and others. IBM has made a fair commitment to the open-source community by it's business decisions. As for the cost, I think it'd be worth the effort for you to get a quote as it may not be as expensive as you think. Stated differently, the quality of the support is worth the cost.
Try the second or third link down in the middle of the page. The second link is for version 8. The third link is for version 7. You have to register to create the webmail account information. Software Demo Link: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/demos/
Full Disclosure: I do NOT work for IBM or any of it's partners. I do make my living as a Notes admin so there's my bias.
Quote: "When there's too much on your hard drive, you'll have a harder time finding things when you need them..." Was anyone else blinded by this flash of the obvious?
If so, then also when have they patched their systems? Election.com was awarded this job in September last year. (Press release here)
Or marbles: "Another form of mechanical voting system is used in Gambia, where marbles are placed in a machine to indicate votes for candidates. The machine calculates the number of marbles allocated to each candidate." from ace project
New Jersey Institute of Technology has partnered with Smith and Wesson to develop this technology back in 2001.
Quote: "SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - Saf-T-Hammer Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SAFH - news), the Scottsdale, Arizona-based firearm safety and security company, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Smith & Wesson Corporation, has announced a partnership with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). In a formal agreement signed July 18, 2001, Smith & Wesson agreed to work with NJIT towards integrating the university's biometric identification system into the electronically fired Authorized-User-Only prototype handguns that use ammunition developed by Remington Arms. The NJIT approach is a different technology from other biometric identification systems being evaluated by Smith & Wesson."
Reference this link. [iansa.org] IMHO - the New Jersey legislature is just creating a need for S & W new products.
Didn't he also say one time:
"I don't want to run a company, I'm not good at managing people. You have a problem with the guy in the next cubicle? I don't care. Shoot him or something." Marc Andreessen, May 97
No wonder he wants to automate the IT department. He's killed off his sysadmins.