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Palmpilot Calendar Sharing Solution?

Posted by Cliff on from the the-alternative-to-the-little-black-book dept.

Anonymous Coward asks: "We've been looking for a solution for sharing calendar data from our Palmpilots with other users on the local net. We'd prefer not to use Outlook/Exchange (or other expen$ive groupware) or a Web-based service. Is there an app, preferably open source, that perhaps has a Unix based server with Windows client software to sync the Palms?" Anyone have any clues? This is not the first time something like this has come through here. It would be interesting to know how far any Open Sourced calendaring solutions have progressed and if they offer any Palm compatibility.

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  1. Consider these: by sysadmn · · Score: 3
    Groupsync
    GroupSync enables groups of Palm device users to share information in their handheld databases during the normal
    HotSync process through the use of configurable conduits. Shared categories are subject to different access levels and privacy
    restrictions.

    Features include:
    - Full access or read only synchronization between users' categories
    - 3 levels of restriction on Private Records*
    - Category manipulation from the desktop (Native Datebook users can have categories too!)
    - Optional record tagging for clarity**
    - Automatic detection of mapping conflicts to ensure unauthorised indirect access is avoided
    - Synchronization with users of remote desktops (over a LAN)
    - Dynamic updating of both local and remote Palm Desktop displays.

    * Datebook only, 2 levels for other databases.
    **Datebook only

    There are three parts to the GroupSync package, namely the GroupSync desktop tool, the GroupSync Conduits and the GroupSync
    Remote Server. The GroupSync desktop tool does not replace the Palm Desktop but works in conjunction with it.

    Yes, I saw you don't want a web system. If you exhaust all other possibilities, try WeSync.
    WeSync is a web-based system that requires a special viewer on the palm.


    Others have suggested My Yahoo. Before you try them, search deja for the fun you'll face. Currently syncing seems to be renaming categories, and Support isn't answering emails...


    sysadmn

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