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Phanfare Blog: Google releases sync, makes it possible for us to move to Google Apps, ditch Windows
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bstring · 10 months agoThis is worthy of a congratulations, as if being released from a POW camp. Why weren't desktops running OS X/Entourage already?
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erlichson · 10 months agoentourage is nothing great in our experience. the buzz seems to be that older versions were better than newer versions.
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bstring · 10 months agoI've had google sync on my blackberry, but contacts and calendar updates are not pushed, I have to initiate the sync. At least I don't think they are... Does this update for iPhone and WinMo push updates on the fly?
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erlichson · 10 months agoNot sure about the blackberry since it never really talked to exchange. It talked to the blackberry enterprise redirector. their video impies it works with exchange.
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madronemedia · 10 months agoI have a Blackberry 8330 with googlesync installed. It does push contacts and calendar updates on my phone. Check the options setting in googlesync and make sure you update to the most recent one. I do believe that it will only since what is added since you installed sync, so previous contacts and events won't be pushed.
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Don Smith · 10 months agoDoesn't that really mean Exchange is still email and calendering king and actually improves their foothold in the back end office space?
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erlichson · 10 months agoWhen apple licensed ActiveSync for the mail client on the iPhone, that helped Exchange by making the iPhone compatible with Exchange. Google is not running Exchange. They are licensing ActiveSync so that Google services can masquerade as an Exchange server for any client that supports ActiveSync. In the Google Services to iPhone example, neither client nor server is running a Microsoft product, although they are talking Microsoft's protocol. Who knows, this could be MS's strategy, to parlay their leadership position in enterprise email to owning a protocol that everyone standardizes on first to facilitate and transition but ultimately because of convenience.
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JJ Freitag · 10 months agoHow about hosted exchange or hosted zimbra? Didn't msft also just release their hosted service? All alternatives to on Orem exchange I'd think.
