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[Derek Simkowiak]

Jesse> /I get email invites to meetings and I can accept and have it tossed on my calendar via evolution./


     Jesse,
    It's been almost two years since I used Zimbra. 

    Does Zimbra also offer resource booking, i.e., can I schedule a 
meeting in Conference Room A, and then have the meeting invite sent to 
every invitee PLUS have Conference Room A show up as "unavailable" to 
co-workers (during my meeting time slot)?

    Also, what is your experience on the speed / responsiveness of 
Zimbra?  Compared to vanilla Courier IMAP, I found it to be practically 
unusable (10x or 20x slower, when running on old, weak hardware with 
512MB RAM).

    If Zimbra has been optimized and offers an integrated solution for 
Thunderbird, I may need to try it out again...

--Derek

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:30 -0800, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
>   
>>     The sad truth is that the OSS community has completely dropped the 
>> ball w.r.t. an Exchange replacement.  All of the ones Kurt recommended 
>> do not offer a shared calendar that is integrated with email-based 
>> invites and resource allocation.  That's the missing feature.
>>     
>
> Zimbra does actually offer this.  Not only through the webmail, but also
> through zimbra-desktop (their own client suit) but also through clients
> like evolution or thunderbird due to caldev.  I get email invites to
> meetings and I can accept and have it tossed on my calendar via
> evolution.
>
>