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

[Martin Konold]

On Thursday 20 February 2003 15:47, Marco Menardi wrote:

Hi Marco,

> I work in my office with a secretary.

> Seems to me that KOrganizer is intended only for "personal, not shared"
> archives, is it right? (I've run 2 istances of the program against the
> same archive, and the last one saved overrides the first one, and not
> "automatic sync" is made while working, nor a "refresh" button is
> present...).
> Will Krupware be good for this?

Yes, the Kolab server and the Kolab clients are designed for concurrent use. 
If it breaks it is a bug.

> 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.

No, synchronisation is done automatically.

> 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.

Please be aware of the fact that we have concurrent use as a primary goal 
since the beginning-

> We do thid kind of stuff (cuncurrent access) everyday with database...

In theory the kolab approach is not coherent (there are intervalls between 
syncs) and does not provide the same guarantees like a relational database. 

This is intentional and part of the design of Kolab.

> database like Firebird (http://firebird.sourceforge.net/) to store and

IMHO a database approach is not practical for many reasons incl. scalability 
and solving the wrong problem (concurrent dates make very often sense).

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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