Hello, my name is Philip Herbert. I work as a freelance project manager for a regionally operarting company in Bonn, Germany. This customer was not using a Groupware Solution at all, instead there where several attempts with simple webcalendars. Of course everyone was asking for a Groupware with synchronisation. When looking for an easy to start with solution with lots of potential I ended up having a closer look at eGroupware, focussing on the sync stuff.
It seemed that in a very basic scenario (1 or 2 supported devices at the user side), everything really worked well. A presentation of the entire eGroupware at Stylite convinced us to go ahead. In the mean time I had read on the list, that the former project member maintaining the sync code had left the project. I started to work myself into the sync code to be prepared to be able to support the users in case there would be problems coming up. At this stage I started to run a few tests with Funambol Iphone and Outlook Sync because this was what users where asking for on the list. My passion always has been to work myself into technical details at low level, so I ended up spending quite a bit of time analyzing what was happening in the background, and of course finding potential problems that I did not want to see on our users devices. At this stage I had already aprox. 30 Users using sync without any severe problems in daily use. Release 1.6 was on the way ( the first release candidate was out) and I started to fix some problems that where causing issues. This resulted in a patch that ended up in the 1.6 Release. Since then I had a lot of ideas and was experimenting, but the exceptionally high effort for testing, the lack of usable feedback and the fact that things where working well at the local site prevented me from going ahead. Now Jörg has really put a lot of work into the sync code and I believe that not being the only person working on the Sync code is again a very good starting point for future development. I believe that an easy to use, out of the box working sync solution is every important for the eGroupware Project. --Philip ____________________________________________________________ Philip Herbert Carl Knauber Holding GmbH & Co KG address Endenicher Strasse 120-140, 53115 Bonn, Germany email phi...@knauber.de direct +49 228 512 420 fax +49 228 512 9420 mobile +49 177 2488073 This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. ____________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ eGroupWare-core mailing list eGroupWare-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/egroupware-core
