On 12/27/01 7:24 PM, "Michael Hochman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 12/27/01 4:03 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Palm itself released its own Palm Desktop for OS X today, at long last. (So >> you can sync using Palm Desktop instead of Entourage if you want to.) That >> means that the Entourage team can finally start working on conduits, soon >> anyway. I wouldn't expect to see them for a couple of months or so. > > For what it's worth, I e-mailed Landware because of some misleading > information on their webpage regarding synching in os X with Pocket Quicken. > Their (prompt) response stated that they expect to have their os x conduit > out in early January. Now, if a small operation like Landware can do it in > a few weeks, M$ can certainly get it done within a week or two. I'm > guessing that they've already been working on the conduit, and I'm sure they > have earlier releases than what Palm came out with today. I can't imagine > that it would take "months" to get this conduit out to us. I hope so, > anyway. > It seems that people who implied that the beta PD released today includes conduits had it wrong. Or maybe I just misunderstood them. There are no conduits. All you get is Palm Desktop (wow!), not conduits to Palm handhelds. Palm does not expect to release conduits, nor the Conduit SDK from which other software companies can derive their own conduits, until "the end of January". Then they can start, and it will still take some time to do. So I'd imagine that "a small operation like Landware", whoever they are, is just talking through its hat. If you have a conduit to it, working smoothly and cleanly, by early January, more power to them. If they can somehow do it faster than Palm itself, I'd imagine it's by hacking it. Maybe small operations like Landware can consider doing something like that, but big operations like Microsoft usually like to do it officially, with the tools supplied by the associated company (Palm here), not least because even smaller operations like individual customers tend to shout at them when they muck it up and have even been known to sue. Probably the software companies like Palm do too. I'm sure they'll get down to it as soon as it's possible. Lots of sales will depend on it. (Palm's too, which is why it's peculiar they're being so slow about things.) -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
