One reason I'm so enthusiastic about the
Oracle CalDAV support is that I think it puts much greater pressure on Microsoft to support CalDAV in Microsoft Exchange. Last year, Exchange customer Boeing was
reported to have implemented a CalDAV plug-in for Exchange, but only for the free/busy component. Of course, this year
Google added CalDAV support for Google Calendar. But Oracle's Beehive competes directly with Microsoft Exchange, so I would say this latest development significantly turns up the heat on Microsoft to get on board the CalDAV express.
Oracle's support for CalDAV is significant but even more so is the fact that Zimbra (which is arguably now the #2 player in email and collaboration, behind MS) has support and also supports the free/busy interoperability with Exchange. All the top .edu's in this country (Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Univ of Wash, Penn State, Carnegie Mellon, Duke - and I could go on) want this from MS. MS is clearly dragging their feet, which most likely means a revenue impact (loss) is prompting the delay in adopting this.
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