Just clear things up, or at least attempt to ;)
Current version of GroupWise (7.x) does support iCal, which allows others send appointments/tasks to GroupWise users as email attachments, but does not support CalDAV. However there is definitely more than one way to manage your email and calendar through the same application:
- Standard GroupWise Client (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- GroupWise WebAccess (not sure why Ray can't use this for his calendar)
- GroupWise Connector for Outlook (Allows someone to use the MS Outlook client)
- Thunderbird or another email/calendar program that supports SOAP
- GroupWise Mobile Server (allows you to sync or push email and calendar data to PDAs, phones and other mobile devices)
In the upcoming version of GroupWise (v8), which will be release sometime this year, they are supposedly adding CalDAV support. This will add the ability to connect to a GroupWise system with a CalDAV-based client. In addition to this, or actually probably in conjunction with it, this version will also allow users to publish calendars to the web and also subscribe to other published calendars.
I'll wait until after Brainshare (March 16-22) to comment anymore on current/future abilities of GroupWise.
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Stephen Bogdanski
Network Support
College of Veterinary Medicine
Michigan State University
>>> On 2/28/2008 at 9:12 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:03 AM, John Evans wrote:
>>
>> Good morning. I am well aware of which version of "web client"
>> that you are using as I was the person who installed it on the
>> server. The "web client" is not the same as the GroupWise client.
>>
>> As I understand it, GroupWise 8 supports the features you are
>> talking about. You should see these features on your desktop by
>> the end of the year, if not before.
>>
>> > am merely trying to point out that it isn't all wine and roses.
>>
>> What solution is? It is a matter of looking at what is available,
>> reviewing all of the features each solution possesses, and choosing
>> the best at the time.
>>
>> ...John
>>
>
> John,
>
> The whole point of my original message is that I *DON'T* want to use
> the Groupwise client. I want to use something else. I want to use
> something different to add/remove appointments on my calendar.
>
> Your previous message mentioned that I am not locked into the GW
> client, but I am. I cannot use something else to manage my calendar.
> I have to use the GW client. I can use something else to manage my
> email, but not my calendar.
>
> My original message was merely to offer my opinion of the Groupwise
> lovefest that was going on. No solution is perfect, but adhering to
> open standards, something GW does not do fully, helps me find/make/
> create/invent/dream up/hack together something that is perfect for me.
>
> End the lockout! Shake off the chains of closed standard oppression! :-)
> --Ray
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