You're such a good organizer/rallier (rally-er?), why don't you start pushing some kind of protocol for this.

I'd commit to working on a windows client for this. I would really love something like this too, because right now I really maintain like 3 calendars, and I hate it too.

I'm holding out hope for Hula Server and the various CalDAV clients that are popping up. We'll see.

Maybe Evolution won't suck one day and they'll build it on Windows. Oh, look, it's happening kinda:
http://evolution-win32.sourceforge.net/

Go help that project, rather than starting the n-billionth new broken, ill-maintained wheel.

Good luck waiting for CalDAV, since it's been a floating spec with no practical implementation for several years (I looked last week, and all the support software appears to be client-side).

Outlook seems pretty keen to talk to Exchange and nothing else.

Exchange Connector + Evolution works well enough for me to use in the office, but I'll still resort to using Outlook to do large-scale changes, like clearing 1000 messages from the inbox (this isn't a large-scale change, yet Evolution + connector makes it one).

I use remotecalendars to sync an iCal feed into Exchange.

And, to sum up what everyone else in the thread seems to be saying: there's no good solution, and much as it pains me to say it Outlook/Exchange is the best of what's available.

exqueeze me?

http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/CosmoHome

we're demonstrably interoperable via caldav with chandler (which is cross-platform, brad). users have reported on irc that they have successfully used evolution with caldav against cosmo. i've been able to use sunbird with caldav as well, although sunbird has some issues. we also have read-only "webcal" interop with ical (ical doesn't allow read-write subscription0.

there are also people looking at building caldav plugins/gateways/whatever for outlook and exchange. hopefully that will actually materialize someday.

Please come back when it's not java.

what's that sound? could it be - is it - the WAHMBULANCE?

if java's not your style, check out hula, as i believe somebody else mentioned.

for the non-haters, there's also the uw calendar server, which is actually being developed at rpi these days.

Heh.

(and thanks for the previous link....)

A ex-work collegue ported evolution to windows for his wife a year or two ago prior to evolution 2 coming out. When evolution 2 came out apparently it sucked hence both of them don't use evolution any more.

Outsourced outlook provider? Lame. Really Lame.

Outlook has been the bane of my existence for years - no matter where I go there it is - like a leper that won't go away. And usually when I talk to IT folks, it's just a given - there's no getting around it. Pretty amazing given the enormous amount of angst it causes.

I was talking to an IT friend this week that has to administer it and it's just as bad on the backend - hours to recover from an outage, etc..

And worst of all - it's just another M$ hack. Apparently, there's no such thing as real calendared events in the backend. When you send a meeting to someone and they accept it, it just moves the "mail message" to the calendar folder. And the calendar folder parses all the emails and fakes up a calendar based on them. So there are no real calendar events to export, etc.. It also explains a lot of the weirdness of the user experience.

The only alternative I know of is MeetingMaker. It runs on everything and has been working well for over a decade. But it's not well known and it's not the "de facto standard".

> Apparently, there's no such thing as real calendared events in the backend. When you send a meeting to someone and they accept it, it just moves the "mail message" to the calendar folder.

Call it a hack, but that's what makes it easy to integrate in to imap mail clients with their own calendars-

As others have said- sadly nobody does it better yet- right now I'm just fine with my Entourage.
I would imagine in X11 land that Evolution and Kontact can both work semi-decently with their respective OWA plugins?
Or fuck it- run Win2k in a VMWare client and run Outlook "native" :)

jwz has already told us that unless Hula gets the users laid, it'll fail because groupware isn't going to catch on otherwise. The entire arena sucks, period.

I think it's one of those Catch-22 situations where there just is no good answer.

You can do plugins for Outlook - there's one for one of the free web cals, can't remember. (I think Outlook calls them "connectors".)

http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/

There's a $25 client plugin for Outlook, works for free with everything else.

Check out Trumba: http://www.trumba.com:80/default.aspx

The pro version will sync with Outlook.

Kerio MailServer does almost all of that. It doesn't speak CalDAV, but I think the latest version speaks SyncML. I don't think it does the separate free/busy publishing stuff or the intermixing stuff, although it does have multiple calendars, so I suppose that would sort of do it.

-Max

You may want to try reminder fox which is a basic todo list / reminder list goodie for firefox.

I've been looking into this as well. To my good supprise google is building it's own online AJAX calender software! :)
http://www.google.com/cl2

Non-released screenshots can be found at the following url:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/08/exclusive-screenshots-google-calendar/

I'm hoping they can make a kick ass applicatation that can sync with PDA / Outlook / Exchange / iCal etc.

omfg my password was reset in The Great Reset, too, and I still haven't changed it back. I really hate the "we lock you out when someone else makes a mistake" thing.

I guess my retaliation (indirectly) is that I just won't use Outlook since I don't remember my password. Maybe they'll think twice before pulling that stunt again.

Zimbra.

a big list of other similar ones..
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/30/spongecell-an-ajax-calendar/

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/wiki

plus

http://openconnector.org/

I've not tested the later. That seems to be the stickiest wicket of all.