Awe inspriring combination of productivity geekery, apple geekery, and open source geekery.
For Leopard, Apple pulled its iCal development in house, and paired its iCal client with a new calendar server. [...] Apple built a standalone calendar server based on the open CalDAV specification. It also announced plans to release its calendar server as an open source project in the same pattern as the Apache web server.
This strategy allowed Apple to focus specifically on the demands of a calendar server, rather than delivering a single product with a wide scope attempting to do a little bit of everything. It also offers the open source community an alternative to emulating Exchange Server. By offering a standards compliant CalDAV server under the Apache license, Apple can use the best existing email server while also sharing its calendar server to the community and Linux administrators, encouraging the adoption of CalDAV.
-- AppleInsider on iCal 3.0
Just an awe inspriring combination of productivity geekery, apple geekery, and open source geekery.
2 Comments:
solid tech post stu, very muscular.
only thing i am hankering for is maybe a bit more editorial content from you.
sweet
dave
By Anonymous, at Tue Oct 23, 05:12:00 PM EST
Well, thanks Dave.
I could editorialise about it, but I'm not sure I have the patience. Apple has played a very careful game in going against Microsoft, and this is part of that wider strategy.
With iWork and Leopard, Apple can compete (in certain arenas) with Office/Outlook's dominance. You can have a pretty much 100% mac shop without a hint of MS anywhere.
By stu willis, at Tue Oct 23, 06:09:00 PM EST
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