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These are bogus issues, even in "enterprises"
These are bogus issues, even in "enterprises"
Posted Oct 10, 2005 16:46 UTC (Mon) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)Parent article: Improved Thunderbird Still Fails Enterprise Test (eWeek)
Users are not nearly as tech-illiterate as "enterprise" pundits believe - around my "large" (11,000) tech company office I see all sorts of people running Thunderbird. In many large companies they have independent scheduling and calendaring apps (increasingly online), and I rarely hear people who use this code make this complaint.
Not to say people still don't use Outlook/Exchange, but many of them are using it because they like it, not strictly due to feature-matrix issues.
My suggestion to the Thunderbird team is to keep it simple - the future of calendarding is in web apps, not desktop apps.
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These are bogus issues, even in "enterprises"
Posted Oct 10, 2005 19:05 UTC (Mon) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]
Speaking of web-based calendaring, I've implemented Web Calendar for many clients. This Perl-based system has all the shared calendaring needs covered, e-mail reminders and daily summaries, corporate caalendar, multiple calendar overlays, a clean interface, simple administration, and very scalable.
Try it! http://www.math.utexas.edu/webcalendar/