Meeting Maker is a cross-platform personal calendar

Calendar

A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months, and years. The name given to each day is known as a date. Periods in a calendar are usually, though not...

 and group scheduling software application from PeopleCube

PeopleCube

PeopleCube is the producer of Resource Scheduler, Meeting Maker and several other software applications for group calendaring and resource scheduling. The company's headquarters are located in Framingham, Massachusetts, with satellite offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Traverse City, Michigan,...

. The product dates back to 1990, when it was originally Mac

Macintosh

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-only software created by Callisto Corporation

Callisto Corporation

Callisto Corporation was a software development company founded by Robert Harris, Mike Barta and Seth Lipkin in May 1989. Prior to founding the company, all three worked at GCC Technologies....

 and published by ON Technology

ON Technology

ON Technology was a software company in the United States. It was formed by Mitch Kapor after his departure from Lotus Software. The original plan of the business was to build an object-oriented PC desktop environment providing a variety of applications...

. It was released for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 as Meeting Maker XP (cross-platform) in 1993. At times, it even had native clients for HPUX, Solaris, SunOS

SunOS

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, Linux

Linux

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, Apple Newton

Apple Newton

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, and others. Currently, besides Mac and Windows, it offers a browser-based client, which is supported on Solaris and Linux.

Meeting Maker is used by small and large businesses, universities, and other organizations. It enables users to view the availability of others, send out meeting invitations, accept/decline meetings directly from their calendar view, and reserve essential meeting resources such as conference rooms and A/V equipment. Several add-on modules are available for added functionality including Meeting Maker Mobile, providing remote calendar and email access from mobile devices, and Meeting Maker Connector for Outlook (MMCO) which integrates the Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...

 calendaring environment with Meeting Maker. Recent versions use NotifyLink for wireless synchronization, including support for BlackBerry

BlackBerry

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, Palm Treo, and Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile

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 Smartphone

Smartphone

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s.

External links

• Calendar Software Program
• Public discussion list archives at Emory University
  Emory University
  Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
  
  
• Meeting Maker launches collaborative scheduling platform - article in MacWorld
  Macworld
  Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California...
  
  on May 13, 2002