Tuesday, August 01, 2006
A nice Red Herring article
This week, Red Herring has a nice article on Funambol in the print edition. Unfortunately, the online version of the article is missing the most important piece, the picture of the Sync4j Bug ("the only Sync4j bug you can't catch"). I have no idea how the photographer managed to make it look so shiny, but I guess he is a magician. My bug really could use a car wash...
Posted by Fabrizio at 09:16
5 Comments:
Donald C. Kirker said...
Ahh, very nice, very nice.
I am sure that Funambol will give RIm and Microsoft a run for their money. The only issue that I see with (Microsoft) is that their push software comes built in with WM and many corporations use Exchange. Like the article said, you'll have to create a really good marketing campaign. I am sure that you will be able to do this and open source will be on your side.
Regards,
Donald
Comment Posted at 14:46
Fabrizio said...
Hi Donald,
thanks for the compliments.
If you can find me one enterprise that will buy a WM device for every employee, I will agree MSFT will win. It is not going to happen. People will have their own devices, either RAZR, Nokia or Apple iPhone (or whatever they will call it). For the masses - that's our target - you will need a platform supporting more than one device or OS. The only way to get there and support one billion phones changing every year is through an open source community effort.
Comment Posted at 14:56
Donald C. Kirker said...
Yes, and that is where you have a very big advantage.
Like you say in the article, open source has a great advantage over close source because it involves the community.
By the way (I know I said this about 4 months ago), I have a great idea for an interface layout for the Palm Funambol client. I am working on getting the PODS program setup on my emulated Windows environment on my MacBook Pro and then I'll send it to you (if you want, I have a somewhat primitive screenshot).
Anyway, good luck with Funambol. I look forward to using the Palm client, especially when email push comes to it (I might be able to help there, but I am not sure how or when).
Comment Posted at 15:05
Fabrizio said...
Hi Donald,
we need as much help as you can give us ;-) I would suggest you send it to one of our mailings lists.
Comment Posted at 15:11
Donald C. Kirker said...
No problem. If worse comes to worst I have your email :) I hope to have something this week.
