Mimic Snow Leopard's Address Book Server

Is there a way to mimic the functionality of Snow Leopard's upcoming Address Book Server? We recently acquired an Xserve and before the rumors of 10.6 even started up, one of our desired features from Leopard Server was a sort of synchronizing Address Book "server" for our users. Is there any way we could achieve this now? I'm okay with doing some manual set up on each user's (less than 20) computer, and/or a third-party server on the Xserve that could somehow act as the Address Book server.
LDAP and OD are new to us, and we currently aren't using OD to authenticate our users. The desired effect of this is not that our address books for each employee is the same, but that we can sync our address information of all of our clients and such. With the LDAP section of the Address Book.app preferences and the availability of OS X Server, is there anything we can do to achieve Address Book Server functionality today?

There's this:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27004/address-book-server
I have no experience with it, so I can't make a recommendation.

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