Hi Philip, welcome, good to have you with us. Ciao Klausi ----------------ursprüngliche Nachricht----------------- Von: "Philip Herbert" An: egroupware-core@lists.sourceforge.net Datum: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:14:53 +0200 ------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Stylite GmbH [ open style of IT ] Morschheimer Strasse 15 67292 Kirchheimbolanden fon 06352 . 70629-0 fax 06352 . 70629-30 www.stylite.de Handelsregister Kaiserslautern HRB 30575 Geschäftsführer: Andre Keller, Gudrun Müller, Nigel Vickers, Ralf Becker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ eGroupWare-core mailing list eGroupWare-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/egroupware-core
