Calendar Server eases users' scheduling - iPlanet makes offering shared calendars affordable.(Software Review)(Evaluation)

AS E-MAIL IS now necessary for business communications, shared calendar and scheduling is becoming a must-have for many enterprise users, allowing them to simplify their scheduling with their colleagues.

iPlanet Calendar Server allows users to access their calendars from any browser or Web-enabled wireless device, as well as add to co-workers' schedules and layer schedules in their calendars. With iPlanet Calendar Server 2.1 -- the company's first port to Windows NT from Sun Solaris - - iPlanet is doing its best to make Internet-based calendar sharing as ubiquitous as e-mail.

Calendar Server 2.1 is a highly scalable, standards-based calendar service that targets large enterprises, ISPs, and ASPs (application service providers), particularly those that provide consumer hosting or wireless service. Calendar Server reduces a project's time to market, offers customizable logos for service providers' branding, and allows for the addition of …