On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:36 +0100, Stephan Schulz wrote:
> maybe this is a bit off-topic and also I am not a SyncEvolution or even
> a Moblin developer but I am following this list for a while now and have
> some comments.

Welcome! Please, keep commenting. Such feedback is very valuable.

> I would like to suggest to support some more free-available servers that
> everyone is able to install on their own root-servers or web-space
> accounts. I think of Kolab/Horde or maybe also eGroupWare. They have
> their own syncml implementation ready and also already included. This
> would be a great, and in case of eGroupWare also simple, solution for
> people who do not want to give their sensitive Data out of their hands
> to google or others.

I've tried to work with the at least one of the two before. I think it
was eGroupware, because at some point I was actively testing against it
(see syncevolution.org compatibility page). None of developers at that
time ever replied to my emails. Trying to support a server where the
developers are either completely uninterested or have left the project
is a waste of time, so I stopped testing against eGroupware.

Do you think the situation is different today?

Are you sure that both Horde and eGroupware have their own SyncML
implementation? I think that at some point at least one if the suites
switched to Funambol. We'd still have to test against that, because even
if the engine is the same, the data handling is likely to be very
different from myFunambol.com

Finally, is either of these suites really easy to install? Our own plan
to simplify the situation for casual users is to implement the SyncML
server role ourselves. This would be without web interface, but could be
made to run on a shared server without installation, without root
access, just via ssh.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.


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