NEWS: PalmSource Moving Away from HotSync

Hiya folks!

Just noticed this on Brighthand
http://brighthand.com/article/PalmSource_Moving_Away_from_HotSync

"By Ed Hardy | Editor-in-Chief
Feb 22, 2005

Since the first Palm Pilot, handhelds running the Palm
OS have communicated with desktop computers via
HotSync, its self-developed method of information
synchronization. Today comes word that this will soon
come to an end.

The problem with HotSync is it's proprietary software.
Some large companies who might be thinking of
standardizing on Palm OS handhelds or smartphones
would have to make significant changes to their
middleware in order to allow these devices to
communicate with their information databases.

To deal with this problem, PalmSource is going to
switch to SyncML, a widely used, open standard for
information synchronization, according to a report in
Computing.

This is also in line with PalmSource's plan to move
the Palm OS to being based on Linux, an open source
operating system, rather than its own proprietary
microkernal.

PalmSource didn't give a timetable for when the switch
to SyncML is going to be made, but it's most likely
going to happen with Palm OS for Linux, which isn't
expected to be released for some time."  
More at Brighthand.

My take: basically, this will take a while - probably
a couple of years.  But, for OGo, this opens up the
possibility to Syncronize with not only Palm
Handhelds, but other mobile devices as well.  Likely,
OGo will have to maintain the existing nhsd daemons,
but the addition of SyncML to OGo's functionality will
really open up new opportunities for mobilizing data. 
This could also work for "offline sync" of clients
like Evolution.

Thoughts...?

Have a good one!

/Mike

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