[thelist] iCal Integration

[Burhan Khalid]

Greetings All:

   So I'm having a chat with one of our clients and they mention that 
they want to have a shared calendar server available for them.  The 
president of the company uses a 12" Powerbook for travel use, and likes 
the iCal software.

   I google for a while and find out about iCal, find out its actually a 
standard (wow) for calendar publishing.  I run across phpiCalendar which 
is a neat php application that can read iCal files.  I've run into a few 
issues that I'm sure are just because I'm new to iCal (and OSX in general).

   Firstly, is there such a thing as a iCal server?  Some application 
that I can run on a web-enabled box that allows people to view shared 
calendars, add/update their calendars, access control, etc.

   Secondly, is iCal compatible with Outlook? I googled a bit, but all 
the stuff I come up with is iCal servers.  It seems that there is little 
support for iCal in Windows (I came up with two programs, WinDates and 
the Mozilla calendar project (named Sunbird)).

   The idea is to create a custom application that allows for calendar 
sharing in their offices (and for possible remote VPN-enabled users). 
They really don't want to invest in Exchange just for its calendering 
abiities (they are already using Linux webservers).

   Any ideas?

Regards,
--
Burhan Khalid