From: Future Media (Luke Siemaszko) <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:50:16 +0000
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I'm the OP. Thanks all for some interesting comments. It's fun to
read, but I'm not really getting what i am after. Let me explain more
what I seek.
We run a small business (<10 people), everyone is on 10.3.9 and we have
10.3.9 server. Things we do are pretty standard office applications,
accounts, shared files for WP and spreadsheet. And 10.3.9, while not
perfect, works. However we have big problems with shared calendars.
We are very busy, by which I mean that we have a LOT of small
activities that need to be kept track of. So we need a calendaring
solution where everyone can read and write everyone else's calendar.
There are calendars for activities as well as people. At the moment we
(unfortunately) use Group Organizer, which never was very good, and now
seems to be on the verge of falling over, I guess due to the size of
the database. We desperately need better group calendaring, I've
looked at the few alternatives and not found anything that I thought
was worth migrating to. If iCal server is any good, that alone would
justify moving to Leopard. But I am wary of moving to V1 of *anything*
so was hoping for some reassurance that iCal and iCalServer on 10.5 are
actually fit for the real world.
The main thing I want is :
-simply a group calendar application that will support say 30
calendars.
- With a decent response, ie no waiting for things to happen.
- With accurate syncing between users
- Without falling over once there are a few thousand old activities in
it
- with separate "appointment" and "to do" types of activity
- with dated "to do" (so you can have activities allocated to a date
without them having to be an appointment)
- with multiple arbitary colours and categories
- stable
I also LOVE that apparently iCal on 10.5 will let you make an email
into a calendar activity - this could have been written specifically
for us!
I played with iCal under 10.3.9 and it seemed to be a very good fit for
the above, apart from the sharing aspect, and lack of evidence about
"real world" performance. I would really like to believe that iCal and
iCalServer under 10.5 would be the answer to my prayers. But I'm not
keen to spend lots of money and time to trial and maybe implement it,
only to find after 4 weeks that there is some major problem.
So I'm really hoping that someone out there has already got serious
with iCal Server and can tell me how wonderful it is.
Or not.
Thanks for any comments
Regards,
Luke Siemaszko
Director, Future Media Systems Ltd.
Unit 2 Grange Rd. Industrial Estate, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4JD
Tel. +44 (0)1425 270511 Fax: +44 (0)1425 278615
Website: www.futuremediasystems.co.uk
