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Subject:    Re: [users] openoffice version of outlook?
From:       Benjamin Long <bflong () longbros ! com>
Date:       2003-11-17 18:11:09
Message-ID: 3FB90F3D.2050707 () longbros ! com
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You forgot OpenGroupware!

It's at http://www.OpenGroupware.org.

Benjamin Long

Oliver White wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: daltrey [mailto:basd1@fastbk.com] 
> > Sent: Mon 17 November 2003 16:08
> > To: users@openoffice.org
> > Subject: Re: [users] openoffice version of outlook?
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> > So, if KDE would just be kind enough to interface its 
> > addressbook and calendar client with the Mozilla ones, 
> > I would be a very happy camper.
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> While I can't say much more about common file formats, it sounds like it might be \
> useful to have a server which holds the calendars, and simply connect using \
> whatever client you have handy. 
> (*) HOSTED SERVICES
> 
> As an example of a hosted service, Apple have the ical website(and a search for \
> ical reveals several more) where they will host a calendar for you.  It's fairly \
> trivial to synchronise Mozilla to such a calendar.  
> (*) KGROUPWARE
> 
> You might also find the kroupware project useful.  It provides a server which is \
> designed to serve calendars and contact lists.  The server runs on Linux and is \
> designed to work natively with KMail and KCalendar.  It's designed to be compatible \
> with Outlook (i.e. you can connect to it with an Outlook client), and it uses data \
> formats which I believe that Mozilla calendar supports natively.   
> (vCalendar and vCard are the standards?? google for more details)
> 
> The link is:
> http://www.kroupware.org/screenshots.html
> 
> Many thanks to the German government for funding this project (which they did so \
> they could convert their offices away from Outlook/Exchange to Kmail/Kolab, and \
> retain compatibility with Outlook clients) 
> (*) REEFKNOT
> 
> That was the big-bucks project.  The hobbyists project is ReefKnot, which is still \
> in heavy development.  It's designed to work in Perl, and you may know that Perl \
> allows you to run the same programs in Windows and Linux and MacOS. 
> The ReefKnot project has written a set of Perl modules which mean that even if you \
> don't take the server approach, the tools will be very useful for converting the \
> various file formats from one system to another. 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/reefknot/
> 
> 
> (*) OTHER GROUPWARE
> 
> So far as I know, none of the web-groupware projects (moreGroupware, Tutos, \
> PHProjekt, Sourceforge) allow you to connect to their calendars using a desktop \
> client, although I do know that they all have excellent calendaring features, \
> contact lists, and task lists.  Again, anybody with a webserver handy can use these \
> projects if they don't mind losing the convenience of a desktop client.  (PHP and \
> MySQL required) 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Oliver White
> 
> 
> 
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