webdav and spreadsheets

[dave morton]

the downside to google calendaring is that logging in is through the main 
portal, giving your users access to all your personal email and spreadsheets 
etc.

we use webdav calendaring because it is a discrete application, used soley 
for group calendar function and we can have a seemingly unlimited number of 
people subscribed and editing the calendars as needed , all in real-time, 
doing read/write. (dav is distributed, authoring, and versioning- so all our 
calendars are are up to date in real time)

imap is ok for email web servers, but sessions are limited in the way they 
can be used. (you can't just drag a file over to the server or get one back 
onto your desktop - you must manipulate the server with a mail client --- i 
believe)

because webdav is a derivative of http, sessions can be encrypted etc 
because the functionality has existed in web browsers for a long time. 
furthermore, drag and drop are done as if you are working on your local 
desktop.

i agree, google stuff is beautiful, but for collaborative calendaring and 
spreadshet work, it is too limited when a group of people need read/write 
access in real time
regards dave

>marc lijour
>Google has some basic spreadsheet online. It looks amazing and very
>promissing.
>Google calendars are quite complete in terms of functionality. You can see 
>and
>even superimpose your calendar with friends'. Standard calendars such as 
>many
>countries' holidays are readily available.
>When I set up an event in google calendar I often ask it to send me a text
>message to my cell phone to remind me. This is very sweet :)
>
>imap is also great for distributed computing. Imap folders can be tagged 
>and
>store many things. KDE Kontact comes with some functionality (as a client 
>to
>Kolab which uses IMAP if I am not mistaken).
>It looks to me that the famous First Class system is using IMAP as a 
>backend
>as well (actually it has an imap server).
>
>marc
>
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