=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_Hjelm=E5s?= writes:

.... intranet: - calender (outlook type thing) - booking (meeting room, classroms, etc) - news publishing - sharing documents - email program - each employee should easily be able to manage his/her homepage and course pages - forms

internet: - website search - forms (online application forms) + some of the same features as the intranet .... The rest of my group is focused on selecting a commercial solution, which is very expensive, so Im trying to figure out if Zope, ezPublish or some other open source system is worth looking in to. Unfortunately, I dont have the time to download and try things out myself.

Any thoughts, ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thus, you simply believe us?

Hope, that your colleagues (looking at the commercial solutions) are a bit more cautious before they spend big money.... I think, you can go for Zope (at least, if you have some programming skills and have a bit of time). I have just read the announcement of "Amphora Light". Seems that it gives you most of what you want. http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/ You, probably, will need to do the "booking" stuff yourself, but I saw recently some posts in this respect. You can share forces with other persons on the list to get it implemented. Dieter