OT: Re: How many people to admin a Cyrus system?

[Rudy Gevaert]

Scott M. Likens wrote:
> Have you ever looked at some of the CalDAV Servers out there?
> 
> I'll save you some time,
> 
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver
> 
> http://rscds.sourceforge.net/
> 
> As well as,
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcaldav/
> 
> Truthfully, you don't need Cyrus to support a Calendar.  Because in all 
> honesty, it's unrelated to mail.  If you use Kerberos, LDAP, AD, MySQL 
> for Authentication.  Take a look at one of those, tie in that 
> authentication and you're done.  Then depending on which one you choose, 
> you can have users share their calendars or not.
> ... There is enough F/OSS out there to emulate everything you can get 
> with Exchange, and/or any other 'Enterprise' Mail System.  No it's not 
> as seamless as Exchange, but it works just fine and it's an open 
> standard.  You'll find lots more CalDav Servers, and software in the 
> next 6months to a year.

Well I'm impressed, I didn't know it would already be possible.  I'll 
keep an eye on those projects.  When I have some time I'll give them a 
closer look!

Are you running any calendar server?

Rudy


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