You raise an important point --- just how valuable would a centralized calendar system be? What features have what value? Procurement of such a system would probably start with these types of question as well as a study of use cases. This discussion has jumped past these issues to a discussion of individual software packages. How would people use such a system? Where is the value? Cheers, Tom Laurence Bates wrote: > That is a valid consideration but many of our Mac users are now requiring > Windows on their Intel Mac computers and so the problem for them could be > worked around. AD is also a valid objection and I'm not sure that an > adequate work around could be found for that. The benefits or trying to > find one, however, are quite substantial. I have to believe that MSU is a > significantly less efficient organization by virtue of not having a > centralized calendaring system. >