On or near 7/9/02 8:11 AM, jud spencer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > You know the conduit that we are about to release is 99% done. Do you have > any idea what the difference is between 40% and 99% in software terms?
As a former software developer, I know that the 80-20 rule applies: Eighty percent of the work gets done in twenty percent of the time. The remaining twenty percent of the work takes eighty percent of the time. (That is, the real grunt work is in all the final details.) In other words, the difference between 40% and 99% is enormous! Something 40% done means the guy did only about 10% of the work! Take a look at his readme file (written in barely readable English, and sometimes incomprehensible). He says fairly clearly that he only syncs NEW records. If you change an existing appointment or memo or whatever, it does not get synced. What value is a conduit like that, which only syncs some of the time? Frankly, I'm amazed that Microsoft has been able to respond as quickly as they have after Palm made the necessary information available. If anyone has been dragging their feet here it has been Palm, Inc. The <only> reason I was even considering QueueSync (which I no longer am, given its deficiencies), is because of Palm's waffling on their website about hot sync support for non-Palm handhelds. -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/>
