--On 09 March 2001 14:50 -0800 Andy McKay <andym@ActiveState.com> wrote:
Absolutely. Zope is definitely worth looking into since it can do all of the above and more. I recommend searching Zope.org for some products which will do what you want and more, for example WorldPilot.
And, most recently (thanks Ross L): ---------- Amphora Light 2.2.26 - a www-based groupware server Amphora Light (http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/) is a free open-source www-based groupware server in Python and Zope, offering basic office functionality: calendars, tasks, contacts, discussion, web email in the context of a hierarchical organisation and flexible access rights. Both Netscape and MS IE are supported as clients. It supports synchronization with MS Outlook calendar, tasks, contacts through a separate MS Windows client. ---------- I played a bit with the demo of the full version of Amphora a while and was impressed. My Estonian improved too. Locally we have a growing clamour for some sort of shared calendar/diary system. Various web-based solutions have been looked at (of the ASP kind too - as in Application Service Provider). But users, bless them, generally react that "it's not as good as Outlook". Now I don't know Outlook fully, and I don't think most of our users have seen the full-on Outlook backed by Exchange server, so I find to hard to form a view or make a strong case for a more open, Web-based solution. I note Amphora (and some other Web groupware products) make a deliberate play on "synchronization with MS Outlook" - so clearly it is recognised which player in the marketplace already has a significant foothold. My question/plea: Can anyone share with me a real life example along the lines of "we were Outlook/Exchange users and happily migrated to Web groupware solution X" or "we use Web groupware solution Y in conjunction with a significant number of Outlook users"? If it's got a "Z" in the solution, even better ;-) It's the _shared_ (i.e. not just personal) aspect of the calendar/diary system (and the granularity of the access control to such a shared system) that seems to be a key issue for us - and a differentiating feature between the various solutions (i.e. most are deficient in this area, including I think, WorldPilot - though I would love to be told I was wrong about this). TIA Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/