Re: Best of both worlds

[Michael Limprecht <Michael.Limprecht@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder what we are rally doing when it comes to specifing features
for our products. It appears that sdtpdasync isn't anywhere
close to the feature set of PilotMgr and is years behind it in
release times.

Doesn't anybody take a look at what's going on around them?

Mick


> From owner-pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Sep 20 09:20:30 1999
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:18:27 +0100 (BST)
> From: Darren Moffat - Solaris Sustaining Engineering <darren.moffat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Best of both worlds
> To: cphilippe@xxxxxxx, pkobly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >StarOffice is a closed-source, unfree software solution.  Merging the 
> >open-source, free Pilotmgr distribution would be a mistake - IMHO.
> 
> StarOffice source is due to be made available under the Sun Community Source 
> Licenese. 
> 
> Also Solaris 8 is due to ship with a (Java base) sync tool called sdtpdasync
> which IIRC uses the 3COM APIs.  I've just (today) migrated from PilotManger
> to sdtpdasync and it seems okay it doesn't (yet) do everything that 
> PilotManager does do what I need: Calendar, Backup, Memos, IMAP Mail.
> 
> The only thing I don't like about sdtpdasync is that holds only the
> current backup not a history like PilotManager.
> 
> sdtpdasync doesn't do SyncPlan, SyncTime, SyncFood etc
> 
> --
> Darren J Moffat
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