looking for software suggestions for customer

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

Customer doesn't have $ for the royal suite of windows server+ exchange server - his requirements:

1) sharing calendar on network
2) sharing excel files between transport planners ...1 file - 5 or so users.

I know excel can do document sharing - but is it ok for 5 users at once..

Wat happens if 2 or 3 people edit/work on same cell lets say D5 and saves the info? haven't tried it myself before ,so i am asking people that have

thx
nutz

 

[flyweb]

For the calendar thing, try TimeCalendar it's freeware.

 

[LazyLion]

Customer doesn't have $ for the royal suite of windows server+ exchange server - his requirements:

1) sharing calendar on network
2) sharing excel files between transport planners ...1 file - 5 or so users.

I know excel can do document sharing - but is it ok for 5 users at once..

Wat happens if 2 or 3 people edit/work on same cell lets say D5 and saves the info? haven't tried it myself before ,so i am asking people that have

thx
nutz

http://www.officezilla.com/

 

[mh348]

Google Calendar and Spreadsheets.

 

[Jabberwocky]

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/prodinfo/what.mspx

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Server_Express

or

google docs

 

[Asha'man X]

Customer doesn't have $ for the royal suite of windows server+ exchange server - his requirements:

1) sharing calendar on network
2) sharing excel files between transport planners ...1 file - 5 or so users.

I know excel can do document sharing - but is it ok for 5 users at once..

Wat happens if 2 or 3 people edit/work on same cell lets say D5 and saves the info? haven't tried it myself before ,so i am asking people that have

thx
nutz

I can't recommend anything freeware to help your solution, but I can chime in with my info. At work we had some people always try to edit a Word document at the same time, and there were always locked file issues. It was a pain, and I could never figure out a way around it. These applications were just not designed to have the same file open at the same time by multiple people. I can't say for sure, but I think the file would get corrupted if you had so many people using the same Excel file at once.

 

[wezhira]

openoffice and googledocs allows you to share your docs with as many people as you like

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html
http://www.openoffice.org/

both free