[Cialug] Replacing a Palm

[Josh More]

I'm in the same boat.  My solution is to wait until Pimlico gets
Pimlical fully written and ported to whatever platforms that they are
going to support.  They are the ones that Palm/Handspring licensed the
DateBook application from.  At the moment, they support Palm and WebOS
(you know, Palm ;)  They've said that they're working on
iPhone/Blackberry and possibly Android.

The other Palm app that I care about is GnuKeyring, which seems to have
a migration path on the iPhone, though my iPhone friend hasn't fully
tested it yet.  Whichever platform gets a migration path first is likely
the one that will win.

Lastly, for me personally, iPhone (jailbroken) and Android have an edge
on the others, as I can run my security apps on them.  Admittedly, some
of that is that I think it would be neat to hack wifi on my phone, but I
think that either of them would also provide the ubiquitous access that
I need.




-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701

>>> "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> 11/19/09 5:41 PM >>>
It was a lot of fun meeting folks last night, .. if anyone ever heads
towards St. Louis let me know!

We had an interesting discussion at the far end of the table, .. and I
wanted to see if the 'other end' had any input.

Problem: I have 10+ years of calendar & contacts in a Palm environment,
..
which, I'm sure everyone knows, is dead h/w. In migrating to a new
environbment, it would be nice to have ssh as one way to 'justify' the
investment. Current contract with Verizon, which seems like the best
coverage for our use.

Solution: 'Droid - Seems design-challenged to me (e.g. keyboards with
top
rows you can't use with the edge of the display in the way) and requires
Cloud services [a negative to me], ..

Solution: Pre - Really nice nice form factor and interesting from a s/w
standpoint, but has a keyboard that is totally unuseable and migrating
from Palm Desktop is unknown, ..

Solution: iPhone - Fairly nice, but the touch keypad is not really
usable,
calendar/contact capability lacks migrationpath, .. also not open
source.

Solution: Web Services - TJ described a pretty slick business
environment
with SugarCRM, which might bear investigating, .. but would require 'Net
access for use [as opposed to a Palm].

What other options should be considered? THe Nokia N900 is pretty big
and bulky - I'd almost rather carry a Netbook than that; I'm almost
thinking that a Netbook/Fliphone would be workable?

    Lee

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 Leland V. Lammert            lvl at omnitec.net
  Chief Scientist        Omnitec Corporation
 Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net
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