First release candidate of Horde Groupware 1.0
A first (release candidate) version of Horde Groupware is available.
Horde Groupware is a free, enterprise ready, browser based collaboration suite. Users can manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. Horde Groupware bundles the separately available applications Kronolith, Turba, Nag and Mnemo.
It can be extended with any of the released Horde applications or the Horde modules that are still in development, like a file manager, a bookmark manager, a forum or a wiki.
The Horde Groupware page on the Horde Project's website explains all the features in detail and contains some screenshots.
Experienced Horde users may ask what the difference is to the existing Horde applications? There are no significant differences. Well, that probably depends on the point of view, but if you have the Horde Application Framework and its applications running already, Horde Groupware is not for you.
The target audience are new and less experienced users:
- Horde Groupwares bundles several Horde applications, you no longer have to download and install them separately.
- It bundles all required PEAR packages, you no longer have to install them before being able to use Horde at all.
- It bundles a default configuration that works with the most common setup, using SQL backends for all features.
- It bundles an installation script that is being run from the command line, asks a few questions and then finishes your configuration and creates all required databases and tables, thanks to the great MDB2_Schema package.
- It tries to create some momentum and make it more clear that Horde is probably one of the oldest web based groupware suites, though still not being perceived as such.
