Re: questions about the right system...

> We still run a old OGo server here which only works with lightning 0.7
> and before.
> Yet as we run debian there is til yet no way to upgrade via "official"
> packages and self made packages are harder than we think about.

I don't know what "official" means but I have RPMs coming to the
OpenSUSE build service for SuSE, openSUSE, RHEL, and CentOS.  
<http://whitemiceconsulting.blogspot.com/search/label/opengroupware>
Only need to finish the Env & DB setup and I'll probably have to alter
the packages to no longer be in /usr/local as current packaging policies
forbid that.

I find updating or migrating OGo to be scandulously easy compared to
other services.  Install, point to the DB, and tar:untar/rsync/copy
"/var/lib/opengroupware".

> Another points are:
> - -we need outlook plugin. The skyrix plugins we bought did not work with
> Outlook 2007 - and we want to migrate to Office 2007.
> The zideone.com plugin is even not in betatest now - we cannot tell how
> well it does our job.

It works pretty well; but I have no idea what the release schedule is.

> - -we need the thunderbird lightning CalDAV functions, as some users use
> thunderbird and wants to manage their calendars with lightning (0.9 and
> newer).

Which works well in recent trunk versions.

> - -we want to functions of Outlook, e.g. free/busy information, basic
> calendar stuff, invitations, read/write rights to persons, individual
> calendars...

I don't think that even worked with ZideLook (at least ACL stuff didn't)
unless you used the folder tree to assign permissions [which IMO baffles
most users].  I don't know to what extent 'fancy features' are even
conceptually accessible via WebDAV/GroupDAV/CalDAV.

Invitations are 100% a feature of the client AFAIK.   If there is a
server side requirement for that PLEASE open a bug report and point to a
reference document.

> - -a ressource management would be nice

I think this works currently, and has for awhile, so long as an e-mail
address is assigned to the resource.   I often assign them something
like resourceName@local.


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