Re: [WinMac] Calendar/Contact Mgmt. Software
Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:27:49 -0700
Curtis Wilcox wrote:
>
> However I would be nervous about relying on a free calendaring system
> that's just "out there" somewhere for a business unless the
> access-from-anywhere attribute was really attractive. Netscape and Lycos
> have their own versions and there are sites SuperCalendar and Jump! which
> specialize in this sort of thing but who knows if they'll shrivel up and
> blow away one day. I'm sure there are plenty of others.
>
> Another calendaring option is Netscape Calendar (software you buy, not the
> free thing on their portal). It has Mac and Win clients as well as a web
> option (the web version lacks a few features of the client software). The
> server runs on NT and some flavors of UNIX.
Does anyone know what software Yahoo is using?
Our objections to that is the same as stated above...no, we're not going
to use a free service from some third party to keep our calendars on! It
also doesn't allow others to see you schedule, much less modify it (we
love Meeting Maker for that; one of our deperatment heads seems to spend
more time in DC than here, and with meeting maker, both he and his
secretary can see and modify his schedule. Updating over a dial in
connection is really fast, too. Unfortunately, as I said before, the
resource scheduling (at least in the version we have) of MM is too loose
for our liking. We needed (and eventually homebrewed) a system whereby
you filled out a web form requesting a room or resource reservation, and
it was approved by someone else before it entered the database.
That works, but it's a bit clunky, and it shows.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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