Re: [SAGE] Pointers for developing needs assessment for enterprise messaging?

[John Sellens <jsellens@generalconcepts.com>]

| Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:47:03 -0500
| From: Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net>
| 
| Why doesn't this service exist in the UNIX space? There are web 
| applications to do this, but I will be the first to say it's nice to have 
| all of your contacts and calendars integrated into one piece of software. 
| We have IMAP which gives us server-side storage, but where is the shared 
| calendar component?


>From my references list:
     * Corporate Time - now the company name is Steltor
       http://www.steltor.com/
       http://www.cst.ca/prod/index.html
     * OnTime from Open Text http://www.opentext.com/ontime/ but the
       server is only NT or Novell, though maybe Sun in the future.
     * CyberScheduler / Synchronize http://www.crosswind.com/cybdata.htm
     * Netscape http://help.netscape.com/products/server/calendar/ which
       is apparently Corporate Time in disguise.
     * Meeting Maker http://www.meetingmaker6.com/
     * Queen's evaluation: http://www.its.queensu.ca/services/policy/cs/
     * TWIG groupware - in PHP, and free http://screwdriver.net/twig/
     * Amphora light - scheduling, calendar, tasks, contacts
       http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/ Full commercial product also
       available. Estonian. Perhaps less polished than some.

There's a few other projects around that I've seen.

Synchronize is a well established product, used lots of places.
I've seen Meeting Maker, but never used it.
When we looked last year, we agreed with Queen's University that
Corporate Time looked best.


So, there's actually a number of UNIX implementations, that scale
very well.  But the prevalence of Windows, and the appearance of
Exchange/Outlook being nearly "free", makes it a hard sell.

John
jsellens@generalconcepts.com