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iCal Servers, Do I Really Need OS X Server?

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Granted, I have not done a ton of personal research on this problem, but I have looked around a bit…anyhow, here is the problem:

My company is 100% Mac, except for our debian-based production environment. We are all running iCal to manage our milestones and meetings, but its really an adhoc solution, not as integrated as say…Exchange calendaring. I do know for a fact that there is an iCal Server, but I don’t really think its feasible to think I will be investing in an xserve + OS X server just to get my company a unified calendar.

Are there Unix-based solutions out there I can install on one of my Debian servers? I haven’t found anything very specific. I know that WebDav plays a part in all of this, is it just so elementary that there is no direct “solution” ?

Curious to see what others have done in this situation.


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  1. Fernando on June 26, 2008 6:26 pm

    Check out zimbra http://www.zimbra.com

    it’s not only an ical server but a complete mta. It’s really nice i may add.

    caldav is an open standard so there should be some kind of an open server i guess…

  2. Michael on June 26, 2008 6:54 pm

    I have you checked out busy sync? It does not require a server at all. http://www.busymac.com/index.html

  3. Evert on June 26, 2008 7:50 pm

    There’s davical.. Needs postgres though, wish there was a sqlite version.

  4. Gary on June 26, 2008 10:49 pm

    The Darwin Calendar Server is an open source CalDAV server, written in Python, and can be made to work on Linux and FreeBSD with some work. The biggest issue is that your filesystem will require extended attribute (xattr) support.

    http://trac.calendarserver.org/

  5. Geoff Bowers on June 27, 2008 12:05 am

    You might try using Google Calendar; we have mixed Windows and Apples. Google has an Outlook synch and there’s http://spanningsync.com/ for Mac users.

  6. Nitai Aventaggiato on June 27, 2008 2:59 am

    If you don’t want to use a open source solution but the best Exchange Server replacement out there, I suggest that you check out Kerio MailServer. Runs on all kinds of platforms and is really really one of the best collaboration suites I have seen in ages. We use 3 mail server all with Kerio, given we also have one Exchange Server. But Kerio really rocks and is so easy to use.

  7. Ted on July 22, 2008 9:04 am

    Interesting the site:

    I have you checked out busy sync? It does not require a server at all. http://www.busymac.com/index.html

    Postgresql is installed on OSX by default with Remote Access… so this should be easy.