[sync] Upcoming Funambol client changes.

[lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de]

Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Tom Malone <tmalone at lancer-ins.com>:
>
>> I was poking around on the Funambol discussion boards and I came across
>> this posting.
>>
>> https://core.forge.funambol.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=405&dsMessageId=33397
>>
>> According to the author the next version of the Funambol Blackberry
>> client will not support the sif format for Contacts.  It will only
>> support vcard.  If you want sif support you will need to recompile the
>> Blackberry client.
>>
>> I have been testing the 7.1 alpha/beta version of the Blackberry client
>> and I can confirm that this is indeed true.
>>
>> Furthermore, according to this post on the developers list sif* is going
>> to be phased out altogether.
>>
>> https://core.forge.funambol.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=402&dsMessageId=30652
>
> This is getting ridiculous. First the Funambol developers dropped  
> standards support to push their proprietary SIF formats, so  
> everybody implementing a SyncML server had to write support for it.  
> And now they do a 180 degree turn-around to drop SIF support again  
> and use vCard/iCalendar? WTF?
>
> Jan.


What are the other options when searching for a SyncML client for  
Outlook and Thunderbird/Lightning ?

Regards

Andreas