(I mentioned this in /msg, but it needs to be part of the public discussion on the topic.)

The point isn't that GCal can(not) solve your problem. The point is that this is a well-solved problem. If your goal is to just get a system up, go buy one. If it's less than US$1000, then it's cheaper to buy than write, assuming that it'll take you about 12-14 hours (programmers generally cost a company, after all expenses, around $80/hr) to get an application up and running and that you'll write it perfectly the first time with the correct interface and handling all features that people might want to ask for.

Maybe, that's a little unrealistic. So, maybe we should allocate about 80 hours over the next 6 months for you to work on this. That's $6400. I think you can find something for $6400 that'll meet your needs. Heck, a corporate license for the appropriate Exchange plugins should probably be less than that.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^3: Managing a on-call Calendar by dragonchild
in thread Managing a on-call Schedule by Herkum

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