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I personally work with lots of other people in departments other than my own. I would love to be able to 'see' if they were available at a certain time to coordinate a meeting. A free/busy server would be able to mediate that simply, if all people who ran their own calendaring systems would buy into it. -Nick Kwiatkowski MSU Telecom Systems. ________________________________ From: MSU Network Administrators Group on behalf of Tom Rockwell Sent: Mon 10/15/2007 12:36 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] MSUMAIL: Re: [MSUNAG] University-wide messaging and calendar system 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. >