Horde Groupware 1.0 RC2 review
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Horde Groupware is a free, enterprise ready, browser based collaboration suite. Users can manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. Horde Groupware bundles the separately available applications Kronolith, Turba, Nag and Mnemo.
Horde Groupware can be extended with any of the released Horde applications or the Horde modules that are still in development, like a file manager, a bookmark manager, a forum or a wiki.
Here are some key features of "Horde Groupware":
Public and shared resources (calendars, address books, tasklists and notepads)
Unlimited resources per user
Translated into 41 languages including right-to-left scripts and unicode support
Global categories (tags)
Customizable portal screen including applets for weather, quotes, etc.
25 different interface themes
Online help system
Import and export of groupware data from other applications
Synchronization with PDAs, mobile phones, groupware clients
Integrated user management, group support and permissions system
User preferences with global default values
Strong integration, e.g. address book lookups in meeting planning, task due dates in calendar
Platform independant, works on any web server with PHP support, i.e. Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X Server
Abstract database support, e.g. for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL-Server
Calendar
Day, week, work week, month and year views
Recurring and all-day events
Alarms with email notifications
Simple and advanced search forms
Meeting planning, also with other calendar applications
Email notification about changed events
Free/busy information exchange with other calendar applications
Subscription of remote calendars
Integration into external clients like Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, Microsoft Outlook
iCalendar and iTip support
Contacts
Distribution lists/email groups, also across address books
Simple and advanced search forms
Customizable address book listings
vCard support
Address book pager (rolodex)
Customizable contact fields
Integration of existing address books
Tasks
Priorities and due dates
Searchable descriptions
Email notification about changed tasks
Integration into external clients like Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, Microsoft Outlook
vTodo support
Notes
Fulltext search
Character counter
What's New in This Release:
The setup script was improved.
Several improvements and bugfixes were made for recurring events and event imports.
The last selected address book is remembered during the session.
Slovenian translations were added for the calendar, tasks, and notes.
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