Mozilla Sunbird can we use it with Exchange
I went through and reviewed the Sunbird project plan about when key features are coming into the product that will make it something we need to be thinking about. Until the product reaches the Version 2.0 status, with support for Multiple People (Meetings), the product is a just a stand alone personal calendar. Their goal is to make it as cross-platform and open-standards first, then add additional support. The first 1.0 version will have the ability to 'accept outlook invites' and limited calendar server support for WebDAV Folders, but not any groupware servers. So it will interoperate for personal calendaring with iCal on MacOSX for example, but not Exchange users.
The key thing the differentiates a 'stand-alone' versus 'enterprise/groupware' calendar application is the ablility to view others free and busy/time, and update your own free/busy time. Shared free/busy requires a central storeage solution, which Exchange provides to us. Lotus Notes, Oracle Calendar all have the same requirements.
I will keep my eye on the project. Interestingly the site doesn't talk about supporting any major 'commercial servers'.
- Sun's ONE calendar server
- phpGroupWare
- eGroupWare
- OpenGroupWare.org (OSS version of Skylix)
- Exchange4Linux (formerly Bill's WorkGroup Server)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/roadmap.html - Project Road Map
http://osdir.com/Article1558.phtml - A good review of Sunbird as a Stand-alone calendar client
http://www.webdav.org/ - WebDAV site with good links
http://www.southrivertech.com/index.php?pg=./products/webdrive/index - A WebDrive client.
http://www.twilight-systems.com/flacco/mozcal/ - Connecting to WebDAV
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/faq.html#outlook - Does Sunbird support outlook
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/faq.html#share - How can I share my calendar