Calendar Management

There is a trend to do more team-based collaborative work in Bell Labs. That means more meetings than ever before. We now facilitate this process with a shared calendar server. Since there are no ratified standards for calendar server/calendar client interaction, we placed our bets on a vendor that we believe will adopt the IETF standards as they are born. We have an additional requirement that the client must be available for Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX and NT. This reduced our choices to Netscape Calendar Server and Client. We run the server on a Sun Solaris 2.6 server.

This is a recent addition to our network and so far we are happy with the fact that NT, Solaris and IRIX users can finally share calendars. Our Palm Pilot users are ecstatic with the interoperability.