For sure, MySql is multi-user.

Martin

Hi Guys,

Maybe my problem is a little bit off topic but nowadays many other mail programs provide additional calendar functions. I'm interested in your solutions in connection (or not) with Mercury and/or Pmail.

Within our Windows Domain we don't have an own Exchange Server or alternative Groupware in place. Mercury in connection with Pmail is great for e-mailing and fully sufficient. And for a group calendar we are using one of our provider webmailer calendar accounts where every user has access to. But now our provider has adjusted something and since 4 days we don't have access to our calendar data. That's why we are thinking about an own simple solution for our group.

But we are not interested to purchase an inflated server system like Windows Exchange Server. We are also not interested in further Online Calendars to be hosted at external providers where we are at someone's mercy and where our data are being stored somewhere in the world (e.g. google calendar). Further we are not interested to subscribe something where we have to pay on a monthly basis.

We would like to have a small calendar group software which could be installed e.g. on our available SQL server. The calendar needs to have only one account (of course, more accounts do not harm), where all users have access to and where each user is recognizable by its own color code. Every user is able to see all other users and able to add dates or to change the dates of another user. Finally we would like to pay for the software one time only. Then it should run without thinking about.

Further we do not urgently need any online functionality where we get access by mobile phone or something like this. Important persons have VPN access from home and could access by windows computer.

Has anybody a suggestion in this regard? What are you using in your companies? We are searching the entire internet but didn't find the right solution for us.

Regards

Joerg

Hello,

    You should take a look at BORG Calendar at http://sourceforge.net/projects/borg-calendar/  It is a Java application, which can use a selection of databases including MySql. It also can use JDBC which I think is the Java equivalent of ODBC.  Users can have their entries colored.  It also import/exports vCalendar ICS files and vCard  ICF files.   Installation is quick and configuration consists of user options, as well as the location of the central database to be shared

Martin 

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately the website doesn't explain so much. I have contacted the manufacturer whether its software is usable as groupware with simultaneous access of different users.

Joerg