Desktop Calendar/PIM/etc

[Erik Bågfors]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:59:39 -0500, Travis Newman
<panickedthumb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry to crosspost from the forums, but there are 2 different audiences,
> so I thought I might also get some help here.
> 
> We're looking for a good Calendar/Planner/PIM/etc system that has popup
> alarms, and that DOES NOT require the app to be open, maybe just a
> remote app that takes up much less sytem resources (using some older PCs
> because we aren't loaded yet). I do have an old iMac that I'm basically
> using as a server, so I'm thinking of setting up some sort of groupware
> server there and having the program sync with that, if need be, and I
> must admit I just want to play around with a groupware server, but
> that's NOT necessary Evolution would be great, but I can't get it to
> alarm unless Evolution is open, and system resources, as I said, are a
> big issue. It doesn't NEED to look nice, but it would be nice  gtk2
> would be preferable, but it can be motif for all I care if it works.
> 
> PS: I wasn't speaking in the "royal we" at first, or going crazy, I was
> talking about me and my fiancee.


Basically there aren't any free groupware servers that are ready to
use together with a fat client. There are lot's of them that have web
interfaces, but IMHO that's not what 99% of the users want.

for webbased, take a look at opengroupware, phpgroupware, egroupware,
whatever-suse's/novell's-stuff-is-named, etc.

for opengroupware there has been work done with evolution but it's not
yet in a usable state.

This is the one thing I'm missing most, with the focus that novell is
having in porting evolution to windows, I'd even be very happy with
something that only works with evolution.

Cheers,
Erik