On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:15 am, Christopher A. Gahlon wrote: > Help!!! The CEO has just mandiated unified calendaring/scheduling for our > company. And unless I can find a viable alternative he says I'll be stuck > supporting exchange and outpuke. Realistically, if you're going to be having folks running Windows boxes, you're going to have to support Exchange Server, will be less than trying to use any of the few available *nix groupware applications. As somebody else pointed out, the scheduling stuff is the bottleneck. Email can be handled easily with any number of servers and applications -- but, with all its faults, Exchange does do a good job of group calendaring and scheduling, particularly the negotiation part, and I've not been able to find a *nix replacement that works with Outlook -- and you're not going to get everybody involved to drop Outlook, more than likely. If you really want to investigate it further than I've been able to do, you'll have to start with some alternative that can handle exchange/outlook meeting/task requests, and I'm not aware of anything that can -- Microsoft's use of proprietary formats has, so far, worked for them in this.