A couple of months ago I bought two licenses of BusySync from BusyMac. This product works 
perfectly and invisibly -- which is just how it should. It makes me happy. Let me explain a bit -- My wife and I each have a Mac at home, and each have our own busy schedules. There are many appointments that we need to share (especially related to the kids). We each use Mac OS X iSync to synchronize our calendars to our phones (both Nokia S60). At work, I use Linux.
perfectly and invisibly -- which is just how it should. It makes me happy. Let me explain a bit -- My wife and I each have a Mac at home, and each have our own busy schedules. There are many appointments that we need to share (especially related to the kids). We each use Mac OS X iSync to synchronize our calendars to our phones (both Nokia S60). At work, I use Linux.For $40 (two licenses), BusySync lets me share parts of my calendar with my wife and vice-versa. She can see parts of my calendar and I can see hers. Some parts are shared read-only, some read-write. In addition, my calendar is automatically synchronized to and from my Google Calendar. Every few days I use iSync at home to make sure my phone calendar is up to date.
All this multi-directional read/write synchronization may sounds complex, but setting it up was actually easier and took less time than writing this description -- it just works. The end result is that I now have complete read/write access to my calendar on my phone, home mac, and at work (via Google Calendar). In addition my wife and I can keep tabs on each other (heh) and add appointments that are instantly shared.
(Note: I have not yet tried the Evolution plugin for Google Calendar. If this works, then I might be able to have synchronized on/offline access to my calendar via a nice application on my Linux EeePC).
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