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Calendar feature comparison chart










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Provided by Priority (1 is high) Exists Netscape Exchange Evolution Anyday eCal Keystone Worldpilot OpenFlock
Unix text-mode interface client 3
No No





Drilldown from year -> month -> day -> meeting client 1
Yes






Multiple user-experience levels for interface client 3
No






Gantt charts client 3
No






PERT charts client 3
No






Choose first-day-of-week client 2
Yes






X11 interface client (Gtk) 1
Yes No





Windows interface client (Gtk) 1
Yes Yes





Wireless/WAP interface client (WAP) 2
No






Web interface client (web) 1
No Yes





non-ugly web interface (no Javascript etc) client (web) 1
No






Web interface supports SSL client (web) 1
No






Free (beer) license 1 Yes Yes






Free (speech) license 1 Yes No






Contact tracking (when last/next contacted, etc) protocol (contacts) 3
No






Public/private events protocol (iCal) 1
Yes






More complex ACLs for events protocol (iCal) 2
No






"pencilled in" events (time planning but not "busy") protocol (iCal) 3
No






Inter-meeting dependencies (if A is postponed, B must be too) protocol (iCal) 2
No






Proxies (eg secretaries) protocol (iCal) 2
Yes






Invitation accept/decline protocol (iCal) 1
Yes






Attach files to meetings etc protocol (iCal) 1
Yes






Repeatable events (weekly, etc) protocol (iCal) 1
Yes






Handle multiple timezones cleanly protocol (iCal) 1








Groups protocol (LDAP) 1 Yes Yes (LDAP)






Subgroups/nested groups/etc protocol (LDAP) 1 Yes Yes (LDAP)






Roles (manager, etc) protocol (LDAP) 2 Yes Yes (LDAP)






Non-human resources (meeting rooms, overhead projectors, etc) protocol (LDAP) 1 Yes Yes (LDAP)






Project management protocol (PM) 2
No






Understands projects protocol (PM) 2
No






Allows nested/sub-projects protocol (PM) 2
No






Can attach meetings etc to projects protocol (PM) 2
No






Allows non-meeting tasks (simple todo list?) protocol (PM) 1
Yes






SQL backend server 1

Yes(?)





non-SQL backend server 2








Email interface - invitations toolkit 1
Yes






Email interface - other toolkit 3
No






Email PGP encrypted toolkit 3
No






Offline use supported (eg travellers with laptops) toolkit 1
Yes






LDAP integration toolkit 1
Yes






Conflict identification toolkit 1
Yes






Conflict resolution toolkit 2
No






Tracks time spent on meetings and/or tasks toolkit 2
Yes






Generates timesheets toolkit 2
No






PalmPilot import/export toolkit 1
Yes






Netscape import/export toolkit 1
N/A






Exchange import/export toolkit 1

N/A





Yahoo calendar import/export toolkit 3








Flat text import/export toolkit 1








Developer API toolkit 1








Holidays toolkit 2
Yes






International holidays toolkit 2








Search - simple toolkit 1
Yes






Search - complex (regex etc) toolkit 2








SNMP management admin 3








Java API java toolkit 2








Transactional integrity toolkit 1








iCal (RFC 2445) compatibility protocol 1