[school-discuss] Open Source Calendaring products

[Doug Pratt <doug@pratt.name>]

Does anyone have any experience with opensource calendaring
software for schools. We have been evaluating a number of
products and haven't found anything that fully satisfies our
needs. We are going to open LDAP so it would need to support
that. Here's what we have looked at to date (note: not all of
these are open source)

opengroupware -- no security for calendar users
webcalendar -- serious interface problems
suse openexchange -- has to run on suse linux, is essentially
a black box
oracle calendar -- may not work with openldap, expensive
samsung contact -- doesn't seem to integrate with ldap for
authentication
calcium -- lacks group scheduling functionality
scalix -- still evaluating
meetingmaker -- issues with ldap support, support on newer
versions of linux
phpGroupware/eGroupware -- calendar piece is just a modified
version of webcalendar
phProjekt -- weak calendar functionality
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