UK CalDAV Hosting?

[arty]

Hi, the small IT development / consultancy company I work for is looking for a calendar and email hosting provider, but for a mix of Mac OS, Windows and Linux machines, as well as iPhones, Android phones, Blackberries, tablets etc. - basically quite a wide range of technology We're looking for hosting up to around 25-30 accounts initially.

We're looking to have this hosted for us and accessible over the internet. Our main office does not have a great connection (business ADSL, about 4mbit) so whacking a server up there is not really practical.

Unfortunately the only options that seem to be widely available and feasible are:

1. Google Apps - seems expensive and not a particularly great UI for what you pay?
2. MS Exchange - which we'd rather steer clear of due to not really being a Windows shop.

Running and maintaining our own server (albeit hosted externally) is not necessarily a problem but ideally we'd like a fully hosted service that is just 'there' which we don't have to worry about. The obvious solution appears to be some kind of CalDAV server, but I've not really seen any UK hosts who deal with these?

Any recommendations or ideas as to approaches would be very gratefully received Thanks!

 

[arty]

Thanks for the suggestions. We need more than the current free limit of Google Apps, and as I said Exchange is not really our first choice as we are not a Windows / Microsoft shop.

I'll look into iCal Exchange, thanks

 

[arty]

Thanks for your thoughts, Eulogy. I think that Mac support for Exchange is getting there now, as you said, but the Linux guys may be a bit out of look. I might see if we can get a few trial accounts in order to test this properly.