Re: avantgo

[Michael Katz-Hyman <mkatshym erols com>]

malsync is under the NPL, will this conflict with gnome-pilot?

mike

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|Michael Katz-Hyman			   mkatshym@erols.com|
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Eskil Heyn Olsen wrote:

> here is the letter that I received from AvantGo this summer.
> 
> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:38:13 -0700
> From: Daniel Pifko <dpifko@avantgo.com>
> To: deity@eskil.dk
> Subject: gnome-pilot and AvantGo
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I work for AvantGo, producer of a web access service for handhelds.
> 
> You may have heard by now that AvantGo has released its version 3.0
> product, AvantGo.com (see http://www.avantgo.com/frontdoor for details).  
> We have come out the door with support all Palm devices, with a conduit
> for the Windows version of HotSync.
> 
> Without going into the technical details, the HotSync conduit just relays
> information between the Palm and our server, with little data processing
> in the middle.  Furthermore, we have released the source code for this
> relay conduit as part of our Mobile Application Link initiative.
> 
> We're a bunch of *nix geeks here ourselves, and we would love to support
> AvantGo users connecting through *nix desktops, but are unable to apply
> the resources right now.  Given that we have the source code out on our
> web site, and your interested parties both want this stuff (we're seeing
> about 10 requests per day) and have the ability to port it, would you be
> willing to include the Mobile Application Link client in the GNOME-pilot
> project?
> 
> Much appreciated,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> ==========================
> Daniel Pifko
> Product Manager
> AvantGo, Inc.
> email:  dpifko@avantgo.com
> phone:  650-638-3726
> 
> A bee in the middle and a house to the right
> 
> 
> /dev/eskil
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