I am in the process of setting up a very important cleint's medical office(I am related so I guess I have to do good to them!) and they are in need of a network solution calendar. The way I envision it working is to have a server with 5 peoples calendars on it, and having each person access there own calendar, and the secratary access to everyones. It would be nice if it hot sync'd to a palm pilot too. Does such a thing exist?

[pcurtner]

I'd check out Now Up-To-Date from Power On Software. http://www.poweronsoftware.com/site2...9/nutdc39.html

I'm planning on replacing my company's Meeting Maker 6 system with NutD 3.9, although I am eagerly awaiting Now Planner for the Mac..

-pwc

[2far]

AFAIK http://www.meetingmaker.com/ and Now-Up-To-Date (http://www.poweronsoftware.com/site2/html/39/nutdc39.html) both meet your requirements. I'm quite sure there are more such applications, not necessarily with a Mac OS based server tho (Novell GroupWise? Lotus Notes?).

The First Class Server Product seems to offer the calendaring feature as a powerful yet minor part of a hot server collaboration solution. The remote features would likely be useful also. Check out this website.
http://www.centrinity.com/products/FCIS/features

Also check out CS&T's calendar server. Better client than meeting maker (IMHO) and syncs to the palm, also has a web based interface for remote users. It's expensive though.
http://www.cst.ca/

-c-

[Jaharmi]

CS&T's CorporateTime is in use at a lot of universities and we also selected it at RIT (where I work).

It's very scalable, although we haven't taken advantage of that yet. CT ties into LDAP, and we have done some work with that because we're starting to use LDAP for a lot.

The Web client really only lets you see your own agenda, not other peoples'. But it does let you schedule meetings for others as well as yourself. It's just not as handy as the desktop program.

The CorporateSync conduits for Palm are extra; you have to buy them in addition to the client software and Web licenses. But they do work and have both Mac and Windows versions. You can also sync (according to their Web site) to WinCE devices.

The Mac client is pretty full-featured and even supports contextual menus!

My gripes:

1. No way to schedule an agenda item that doesn't block time (like a work shift for hourly employees).

2. Slow sync, but then again, you're synching a serial device to a Mac and then to a network server ...

3. Crappy import functions. Doesn't import tab/comma delimited agenda items, only address book info. Requires VCalendar format files to import agenda/datebook info. (Yeah, and a loooot of programs export to that!)

4. No way to subscribe to public meetings (like seminars, demos) proposed by others.

5. No good way to overlay or subscribe to common events, like hours of operations or a company's special events calendar.

Still, I consider CT one of, if not the best, the foremost networked calendar systems. Its platform support is great, although the upcoming Outlook update for the Mac may tarnish that for people just starting to look now. (We decided against Outlook/Exchange overall, though we have pockets of it.) The resource management is okay, although you may need to develop something to help you do that (we do it through LDAP but we've needed to put work into it for our site).

More info is available from a pretty good report posted last year at Macintouch.

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Jeremy J. Reichman, aka "Jaharmi"