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The Hula Project

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2005-02-15 11:03. Evolution
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Nat wrote: Today we are thrilled to be launching Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server. Hula is a really exciting project already in part because we think that we can fill a hitherto-unclaimed spot in the stack of open source applications and in part because we've "primed the pump" by basing it on an existing, functioning codebase: a Novell product called NetMail. NetMail already runs millions of calendars and mailboxes. And so we're starting off with the mundane work of building a functioning server done, leaving us to focus on creating interesting new functionality.

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"And the whole point is that

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-02-16 12:37.

"And the whole point is that there are no good open source groupware solutions particularly with the innovative thinking that the Hula Project"

No? We have been using an OpenSource groupware solution amoung 14 companies for awhile now. Works great. Even has Palm network sync support and an DHTML interface is under development.

I don't see what is terribly innovative about Hula. It looks like doing the same stuff... again.
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- Fast, written in Objective-C
- Supports tasks, projects, calendering (and teams), and contacts (including associations between contacts)
- GroupDAV protocol with connectors for Evolution and Kontact in beta (but working)
- Support for iCalendar clients like Mozilla's Sunbird
- Uses the ultra-scalable Cyrus IMAP server
- Can authenticate against an LDAP directory
- Support for DAV access to project files, open them right from M$-Office
- A commerical Outlook connector
- An XML-RPC API

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