From: dws@margay.cs.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Looking for Appointment Scheduler
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:23:49 GMT
Reply-To: dws@ssec.wisc.edu
Organization: UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center

schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) writes:
>I need an appointment scheduler (like Meeting Maker for the Macintosh, if
>you've ever seen that one) that works under X.

Some time ago I wrote in comp.groupware:

>I would like to hear about software to coordinate the schedules of
>multiple people.

Here is a summary of the replies people sent me, organized by package
name.  This contains one more package than the previous version I
posted in comp.groupware, which is why I am cross-posting it there.

DaviD W. Sanderson (dws@ssec.wisc.edu)

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Name:	ALL-IN-1
Env:	?
Maker:	DEC

From:	Dave Bell <bell@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>

	[...] look at the shared diary facilities provided by tools
	such as ALL-IN-1 (from Digital) which does the diary checking
	for meetings.

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Name:	Calendar Manager
Env:	SunOS (OpenWindows 3.0)
Maker:	Sun

From:	Bruce Barnett <barnett@alydar.crd.ge.com>

	Only runs on a Sun, but any X server can display it.

From:	Nannette Simpson <Nannette.Simpson@Eng.Sun.COM>

	Sun has a reasonable calendaring program called Calendar
	Manager which runs over the network and allows users to share
	calendars.  It comes bundled with the DeskSet.

From:	Lee Richardson <lcr@ISI.EDU>

	The Sun application cm (Calendar Manager) would seem to address
	this in a reasonable way, for Sun stations using Sun
	Openwindows.

From:	Charles Tarzian <ct@east.hudtech.com>

	It does exactly what you're looking for.  To use it in a
	multiple vendor environment buy X server software for your Macs
	and PC's and set up accounts for those users on the Sun.  The
	Sun server becomes your mail and calendar server.

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Name:	Calendar Tool
Env:	SunOS (OpenWindows 3.0)
Maker:	Sun

From:	Lou Bershad <lrb@cadre.com>

	It lets you view a merged schedule and add appointments to
	multiple calendars and/or you can send e-mail to the
	attendees.  If you choose to let others add their own
	appointments (which we do, because it has a bug where
	appointments scheduled by others do not have alarms associated
	with them), then if they are using the Sun mail tool they can
	drag the e-mail message and drop it into the calendar tool and
	it schedules the meeting for them directly.

From:	Steven Poltrock <poltrock@bcsaic.boeing.com>

	The latest version of calentool in Sun's OpenWindow environment
	will merge several calendars so you can see when there is an
	open time slot.

From:	Peter Loeffler <loeffler@pauke.zfe.siemens.de>

	Its a group calendar with a graphical visualisation for
	browsing multiple calendars of colleagues.

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Name:	Caucus
Env:	"Many, from PCs to Mainframes"
Maker:	Camber-Roth
	A Division of Aule-Tek, Inc.    Telephone:  (518) 273-0983
	1223 Peoples Avenue                   Fax:  (518) 276-6380
	Troy, New York 12180            E-Mail:  info@aule-tek.com

From:	Jim Tremblay <tremblay@aule-tek.com>

	Caucus organizes your input as on-line group meetings or
	private messages.

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Name:	Clockwise
Env:	"Unix"
Maker:	Phase II sofware corporation
	238 Broadway
	Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139-1926
	(800) 735 2557.

From:	Francois Schiettecatte <francois@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu>

	You can schedule events (using resources such as conference
	rooms, etc) with multiple people. I will notify people by
	email. It will also manage conflicts, etc.

From:	bob <bob@teamate.UUCP>

	Tell them MMB sent you.

From:	Wayne Lyle <sjuphil!wlyle@uu.psi.com>

	Not real sophisicated but it does the trick.  A new release is
	coming out soon to make group scheduling easier.  The price is
	reasonable, a couple hundred dollars for enough tokens to run a
	resonable sized office (a token is needed for each concurrent
	user).  We have a 45 user licence that seems to easily cover an
	office of about 250 people.

	The interface is what appeals to us the most, since it can be
	run from any terminal or from a GUI.  Most of the ones I have
	seen only run from the GUI, and having 200+ terminals makes
	these programs useless.  Not saying this is the best thing but
	at least it does the trick for us.

	They have a pretty good demo policy, for $50 you get a timed
	full working copy.

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Name:	Meeting Maker
Env:	Mac, Windows (soon)
Maker:	ON Technology
	on.tech@applelink, (617) 876-0900

From:	Tim Stephens <stephens@concert.net>

	ON will send you a demo (good for a month) suitable for 25
	users.  This product will also schedule rooms/resources for
	you, and attach text documents/agendas to meeting proposals.

From:	Peter Calingaert <pc@cs.unc.edu>

	Investigate MeetingMaker for networked Macintoshes.

From:	Jeff Cantwell <cantwell@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>

	Meeting Maker for the Macintosh is a very nice program, is easy
	to use, and has lots of features.

From:	Steven Poltrock <poltrock@bcsaic.boeing.com>

	On Technology sells a program called Meeting Maker for the
	Macintosh that exactly addresses your question.

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Name:	Office Vision
Env:	IBM mainframes
Maker:	IBM

From:	Steven Poltrock <poltrock@bcsaic.boeing.com>

	IBM's Office Vision product offers a calendar with similar
	functionality [to other group calendar programs], but it is
	only available for mainframes.

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Name:	Synchronize
Env:	SunOS 4.1.x systems under Motif, at least (possibly others)
Maker:	CrossWind Technologies
	6630 Highway 9, Suite 201
	Felton, CA 95018

From:	Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov>

	It seems to do a very good job of integrating individual
	schedules and groups with meetings, etc.
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DaviD W. Sanderson (dws@ssec.wisc.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps