Re: AT&T Wireless says go Ogo

> > Not so much interested with mail as am
> > Contact/Enterprise information. 
> > We already have a large Palm wielding sales force,
> > but so far all Palm
> > integration solutions we've tried have been toilet
> > worthy.  
> There's actually quite a few on the market, but most
> are geared for MS Exchange or Notes/Domino.

Right I've seen that in what I've looked at.  I was actually
investigating Domino when OGo got released.  The solutions our
marketing/sales wing tried were all PC app based: GoldMine, etc...  Not
pretty (sync via the desktop hotsync to the goldmine app, which sync to
the central goldmine database via "goldsync" and then changes
theoretically propagate back to the other desktops when they sync....
Yikes!  And, BTW, doesn't work - after hours of consuming gobs of
network bandwidth).
 
> > You mean the Treo can sync WITHOUT a HotSync
> > desktop?  The Palm talks
> > 'directly' to nhsd over-the-net?  
> Yup!  Now how you go about it can be a little tricky. 

This is all supported in Palm OS 5? (Based upon my reading in the last
hour).

> Network HotSync can be done over Wi-Fi, BlueTooth, or
> any other TCP/IP connection (like PPP). 

Such as the dial-up included in a Palm phone?  Niether Wi-Fi (obviously)
nor BlueTooth look like a way to support on-the-road sales staff.

> ever designed for SECURE networks, since it sends
> pretty much in the Clear.  You would be best to
> implement a VPN solution for Treo users to ensure a
> secure tunnel for your users' info.  Once you have the
> VPN tunnel up, your VPN server would port forward the
> HotSync ports to your OGo's nhsd server (TCP ports
> 14237 and 14238, UDP port 14237).  You do have to do
> some setup on the handhelds, but it's really straight
> forward.

And it seems to use a PPTP VPN, we already have a server that does that.
:)  Nice coincidence, for once.

> I used to HotSync to my OGo server here at the Home
> Office, until I switched to Sabastian's Debian
> Experimental packages (which don't have nhsd).  I used
> BlueTooth as my wireless transport, since it's local
> in the office.  The same thing can be done with WiFi
> enabled handhelds like the Tungsten C.

WiFi in this case is 802.11a/b? (In other words: local).

> Basically, the Treo is great for sales and support
> people who are off-site most of the time.  Regular
> handhelds are great for folks who are on-campus most
> of the time.

The Treo, I assume, can "dial" a data service provider to acquire IP
connectivity?  (Really don't know anything about these things, and it is
hard to sift through all the marketing bilge to get at
this-is-how-it-works).



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