Open source calendaring (was RE: [MLUG] Open Document Format in Minnesota?)

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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>[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
>Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:06 AM
>To: MLUG Members
>Subject: Re: [MLUG] Open Document Format in Minnesota?
>
>On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:
>
>>> I think Massachusetts has already done this.  I hope this passes in 
>>> Minnesota and that many states will follow:
>>> 
>>> http://ros.leg.mn/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0176.0.html&session=ls85
>>> 
>>
>> The Massachusetts case is interesting. OOS "people" spent a ton of 
>> money to get the open document format passed in the state 
>and signed into law.
>> It was thought (on the internet anyway) this would be the start of 
>> widespread adoption of OpenOffice (etc) until Microsoft 
>released there 
>> own ODF and sold Massachusetts one of the largest Office 
>2007 licenses 
>> to date.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Open_XML
>>
>> It looks like Minneotas law will be the same thing.
>
>
>Microsoft can continue to do their thing indefinitely, but 
>they are slowly being worn down.  They were forced, entirely 
>against their interests, to start using an open file format.  
>I don't know if their version of open XML is any better than 
>the one that had already been developed by OpenOffice group.  
>Having their own format widely adopted will give them a little 
>more time, but in the end, having an open format takes away 
>one more reason to want to use MS Office instead of Open Office.
>
>For me, widespread adoption of an open file format is a lot 
>more important than the success of Open Office.  I think this 
>will do a lot to encourage competition.
>
>Mike
>

This line of concersation got me thinking on a subject discussed 
several years ago about open source calendaring.  I decided to do 
a search and found this"
http://www.opengroupware.org/en/applications/index.html 
and am going to try it at my other job and see how it works.  They 
want a cheap and easy calendaring and mail system and this looks 
interesting.  Has anyone else tried this product yet?  

Thanks for bringing up the subject!

Diana 
 
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