{"id":339,"date":"2005-09-08T18:24:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T01:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=339"},"modified":"2005-09-08T18:24:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T01:24:47","slug":"oracle-best-in-the-industry-for-group-calendar-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/oracle-best-in-the-industry-for-group-calendar-scheduling\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle best in the industry for group calendar scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>So says <A href=\"http:\/\/www.shared-spaces.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/further_thought.html\">Michael Sampson<\/A>.<\/P><BLOCKQUOTE>  <P>What Oracle has achieved   here rocks big time. This is the best implementation of calendaring for   enterprise users that I am aware of to date. The Steltor technology is   obviously playing a big and important role in making this happen. With respect   to internal calendaring, and this being an area that neither Microsoft nor IBM   Lotus deal with properly in an age of workspace proliferation, I&#8217;d argue   strongly that Oracle should be a strong contender in any email migration   projects.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><P>I frankly don&#8217;t whether or not this is all true but I would like to talk to Oracle about it to find out more.I will also be talking to Michael.<\/P><P>At RedMonk we&#8217;re giving a lot of though to how to improve meeting scheduling. Its a nightmare today. What is the best approach? Possibly a service in the sky. <\/P><P>The current approach: email to contacts, Outlook calendar, back and forthing is just the opposite of productivity. <\/P><P>Note Michael talks about rip and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/000905.html\">replacement<\/A>&#8230; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/000482.html\">Anyone for hula, Stepho<\/A>?&nbsp;<\/P><P>How much much would you be prepared to pay for efficient automated meeting scheduling? <A href=\"http:\/\/www.shared-spaces.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/questions_on_cr.html#comments\">Tell Michael<\/A> &#8211; great to see him giving the issue so much thought, helping to fill in RedMonk&#8217;s own research into the subject.<\/P><P>I would pay for such a service, no question.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says Michael Sampson. What Oracle has achieved here rocks big time. This is the best implementation of calendaring for enterprise users that I am aware of to date. The Steltor technology is obviously playing a big and important role in making this happen. With respect to internal calendaring, and this being an area that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-5t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}