Managing on the Bleeding Edge Eric J. Ray's Weblog

Well, yet again I was rejoicing about finally being Windows-free, and yet again my celebration was premature.

This time, the cause was my new Palm Treo 650 (using Verizon). (Thanks, honey, by the way--I really do appreciate it.)

Why? Well, I've been, as we say, edgemail-ed--my mail server and calendar server have been moved to the latest Sun ONE Mail Server and Sun ONE Calendar Server, and put on systems that are available both inside and outside the Sun firewall. Fundamentally, that's good, because it's possible to get calendar information and mail from anywhere, without requiring a VPN connection. However, it turns out that the only way I could find to synchronize the Treo with the Sun One Calendar Server is to use the Sun ONE Synchronization 1.1 Patch 2 download. And, to use it, I have to sync MS Outlook (really) with the calendar server on a Windows system at home, then the Palm Desktop to sync Outlook to my Treo. Sigh.

One option, of course, would be to fall back to Sun's traditional dtcm, which is an antique CDE-based calendar manager. On the other hand, it's important to keep poking at some of the newer technologies to help get them to the point of working with Solaris.

I hope I'm wrong--if so, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll keep complaining and trying to find someone who thinks this would be a cool problem to solve. (PilotManager and pilot-link work just fine for me on Solaris--I just don't have a conduit to sync my current calendar.)