[sllug-members]: OpenGroupware

[Lamont R. Peterson]

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 02:01pm, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 13:28 -0600, Adam Fisher wrote:
> > What are people's experiences with OpenGroupware or similar software?
> > Any preferences?
>
> OpenGroupware is heavy and annoyingly quirky. We use it at work and for
> that reason I tried to set it up on my personal server. It is big. It is
> being improved very slowly. Depending on your needs, it is overly
> complicated. The interface is cumbersome. But perhaps worst is it's
> occasionally quirky behavior: every once in awhile it'll just decide to
> deny access to an event. It does a poor job of handling multiple windows
> open at the same sime in the same browser. This is a classic result of
> misusing cookies.

I agree with Stuart (yes, folks, it does happen).  OpenGroupware is something 
to stay away from at this point.  For one thing, I think Stuart understated 
just how slowly development is progressing; for example, it's been 2 years 
since I first heard that OpenGroupware was really close to supporting 
Kerberos and it's still not here.

A couple of other things that really irritate me using it's interface is that 
there is no way to do some kinds of customizations that you would think are 
obvious, like having a calendar start on Sunday instead of Monday.

Other issues include problems with multi-day appointments, which covers almost 
every single item we have in OpenGroupware, here.

Also, I have spent a little time down in the code and I have the battle scars 
to prove it.  It sucks.
-- 
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]

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