Meeting Maker is a cross-platform personal
calendar
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and group scheduling software application from
PeopleCube. First released in 1991 for
Macintosh
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by
ON Technology, support for other platforms followed in 1993 with Meeting Maker XP. Alongside Windows and Mac, native clients were released for OS/2 and Solaris, and later also for other platforms (
HPUX,
Linux
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). Some support was also introduced for mobile platforms like
Apple Newton
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, PalmPilot and Windows CE. Although powerful, its user interface - aiming at uniformity across multiple platforms — was criticized as weak and not supporting all features of target platforms.
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
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calendaring environment with Meeting Maker. Recent versions use NotifyLink for wireless synchronization, including support for
BlackBerry
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,
Palm Treo, and
Windows Mobile
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Smartphone
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s.
References
External links
Calendar Software Programat
Emory University
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Meeting Maker launches collaborative scheduling platform- article in
MacWorld
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History
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on May 13, 2002
Calendaring software
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