Club Linux Coffs Harbour

Linux Edge looks at a very early and not-ready-for-prime-time version of the Hula Mail and Calendar Server, or at least it's web interface. Nat Friedman of Novell launched this project over a year ago, touting it as the mail and calendar server people will actually enjoy using. The caught my attention, as every existing product in this area that I've tried could most diplomatically be described as "challenging" to deploy (and not in a fun way).

The above review looks exclusively at the eye-candy, but what I'm really holding my breath for is a product with good support for the mail/calendar/contact alphabet soup of overlapping technologies that nobody's yet implemented in a full, stable, and useable way. eg. IMAP, iCalendar, CalDAV, WebCal, LDAP, FOAF, vCard, etc.  Hula promises to support most of these.