Re: Best of both worlds

[cphilippe <cphilippe@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry if I raised any problems w/ this post. Thanks to Sun for hosting the list. End of
thread.

Keep up the good work, and I mean it.

Thank you very much.

Philippe Coatmeur
Webmaster / Feature editor
Ziff-Davis France.

Rob Anderson wrote:

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> Darrell and Michael and all Sun employees on this mailing list:
> the PDAsync project and sdtpdasync is currently not released
> and is in Beta for Solaris 7 11/99 and Solaris 8.  Therefore,
> any information on it is still considered Sun Proprietary
> information and and release of that information is to be under
> Sun Non-Disclosure Agreements.  Please cease any further comments
> on its functionality (too late now).
>
> Others: I've been trying to get a pre-announcement of the CDE
> PDAsync tool out of our marketing group to help reduce the FUD.
> I'm sure you'll all understand that the acquistion of StarOffice
> by Sun was a relatively quick and need-to-know event and the
> engineering teams have not sat down to figure out the integration
> strategy around the Palm syncronization tools in the CDE and in
> StarOffice with our own desktop tools and any of the Netscape
> productivity products.
>
> Please give Sun some time to accomodate all these new opportunities.
>
>         rob a. [Software Operations]
>
> Michael Limprecht wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > >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
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