Enhancements to the developer APIs enable customers to extended this notification to end users through a variety of additional delivery mechanisms, such as SMS or instant messaging. Since the templates are reusable, investment in customization is easily leveraged when upgrading to the next release of iPlanet Calendar Server. This offering, also acts as a platform through which additional applications can be integrated, such as location services which can also be tied to the calendaring and messaging functions. Content such as weather, IPO schedules, and book release schedules can be obtained from iPlanet partners such as iSyndicate and Mediapps. Ease of installation and administration Installation is made easy by the Web start wizard which includes a graphical and textual interface designed for a single installation experience across Unix and Windows platforms.
Administration is enabled by extensive command-line utilities.
On the Solaris Operating Environment, Legato is supported for backup.