[Kroupware] Is kroupware good for a very small office?

[Bernhard Reiter]

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On Friday 21 February 2003 00:47, Marco Menardi wrote:
> I work in my office with a secretary. I need a software where me and my
> secretary can add appointments / notes/ etc. in the same archive at the
> same time. We have to share this information, and we need to modify them
> even at the same time

> Seems to me that KOrganizer is intended only for "personal, not shared"
> archives, is it right?

AFAIK yes.

> Reading the "konzept" seems to me that
> we have to create two different archives / profiles, and every time me
> or my secretary has to enter an appointment, has to notify to the other
> one to keep sincronized. I think that this will quickly produce errors,
> and it's a tedious task.

There is another possibility:
You share one email account which gets accessed by two clients.
(You also get sync points this way, but this is unavoidable with
any design.)

But the other model also works than
you just stay the boss of your calender.

=46or this version of the Kolab Client we did not implement
that you can share parts of your appointments or emails
with a different set of persons.

>  that one of the first thing to do in SW design should be
> understand the goals and the correct workflow of the user is correct,
> but often programmers forget about it (they prefer coding over all ;).
> I can't imagin an office where diary / calendar / contacts /
> appointments / to do  can't be shared between the boss and his
> secretary(s). I really think that mine is a common, basic functionality,
> even (or even more) for big offices.

Both points can be agreed to.
Our professional team from the three companies
erfrakon, Intevation and Klar=E4lvdalens brought in
much skill beyond the programming.

> We do thid kind of stuff (cuncurrent access) everyday with database...
> can't you use a free, multiversional, multiplatform, open source
> database like Firebird (http://firebird.sourceforge.net/) to store and
> manage the data (using server side triggers, and so on...)?

Because erfrakon, resonsible for the architecture,
has developed a better design.
Its main advantages over using  a Free Software databasel
are greater scalability, robust online backup capability,=20
more speed and simplicity.

 Regards,
	Bernhard



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