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RE: Good news for corporate users
Not a big surprise there. Why do people still insist on using IE, despite it being the single biggest avenue for virus/spyware/adware infection and the fastrack to getting your Windows computer hosed into uselessness? I mean, at least with Outlook you have the fact that it's needed to talk to an Exchange server (should you be so unlucky as to be forced to use one at work). With the web there is far more freedom to use the client of your choice, and greater-momentum to fix the outdated idea of making sites that only work in IE. The number of IE-only sites are rapidly decreasing with people finally waking up.
Ah, but I digress... ;)
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Uh, Oh!
Isn't the Server ActiveSync in essence a protocol built on the ActiveSync used by PPC PDAs?
If PalmOne is licensing that, how far down the road do they go before HotSync gives way to ActiveSync, rendering the Palm incompatible with non-Windows machines?
Unlike the HotSync protocol, MS has not allowed ActiveSync to be reverse engineered and used on non-Windows platforms.
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While fundamentally different in approach, they target the same function-space, and having both of them available is kinda redundant.
Activesync may suck, but it's got a bigger gorilla behind it. While initially, the sync may happen at conduit level, it could soon start encroaching on hotsync itself.
It is entirely possible that we will see a Borland-style "competition-to-partner" scenario in the future on this. And if/when that does happen, then start worrying about MS' DRM-push, which is going to complicate things mightily, apart from making it DMCA'able
This scenario had been speculated about a year ago on the jpilot (palm desktop for Linux) list.
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The ActiveSync part of it is simply the comms protocol used to talk to the Exchange server directly. As soon as I read this peice I knew people would get all bent out of shape, confusing it with PPC desktop syncing.
JLM.
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I really wish people read the brief first before starting to criticise something or spreading speculations. The ActiveSync part would be the protocal.
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Good news for corporate users
Although, still not sure why people still stuck with Outlook when it's proven to be most virus prone groupware app in the history of computing... but that's a different story :)
At this point, I think this announcement is good for palmOne.