Unified PIM

[thomas.cooksey at bt.com]

>I guess my only comment is that while I don't really care which
>interface people use on their phones, it seems like the data interfaces
>should be the same... If I open up qtopia phone edition and look at my
>contacts or maybe even edit them and then close it down and open up my
>OM interface and look at them, they should be the same.  All edit are
>visible.. No double entry.

Agreed, but I'd take it one step further. Given the neo has an internet connection, why can't PIM data be stored on a web server and just cached locally. Couldn't you then integrate that into desktop PIM applications too?

Ok, so this isn't a new idea. :-) Evolution Data Server supports integration to groupware backends, but from what I've seen, these are enterprise-class groupware servers designed for corporations. I can't seem to find anything designed for the consumer, an internet-accessible groupware server I can sign up to and store my contacts in a single place.

The problem is not local - I'd be surprised if Embedded EDS couldn't be adapted to store it's data on a server and just use a cached dataset locally. The problem is that this requires some server infrastructure and so far I've yet to find something which will do it. Has anyone else seen this done?


Cheers,

Tom