Comments on: Why Sync Is So Difficult

By: Efrat

Efrat — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:24:18 +0000

Yes, This works! I am developing a software having a centralized server storing all the data. This data can be accessed from mobile or web or desktop.

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By: Sync is a Holy Grail | Tom Keller

Sync is a Holy Grail | Tom Keller — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:41:54 +0000

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By: Maxim Sokhatsky

Maxim Sokhatsky — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:25:35 +0000

Taking the opportunity I want to add that Synrc Research Center provides ONE BUTTON Buddhist-style free Desktop Application that is handy and easy-to-use tool for organizing, importing/exporting, syncing your Address Books with Google Contacts, Microsoft Outlook, NOKIA Phones, Windows Contacts local folder, LDAP Directory, Yahoo! Contacts and Windows Live Contacts.

http://synrc.com/contact-manager.htm

Maxim Sokhatsky
Synrc Research Center

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Sync Difficulties - Oh the Irony — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:32:17 +0000

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By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:58:44 +0000

Maybe you should check out Synkia.com for syncing with mobile devices; based on SyncML. Synkia currently syncs to the cloud mobile content such as contacts, calendar, notes, tasks and SMS. File upload and backup soon to be launched.

Synkia AS, Norway

‘We care, so you don’t need to’

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:42:17 +0000

To go along with the trust and privacy issues associated with all your data “in the cloud”, there is also the real problem that bandwidth, whether it be cable/DSL, 3G, 4G, etc, is nowhere near ready to replicate local load times, particularly as it related to working with images and video.

By: Jean-Gabriel Morard

Jean-Gabriel Morard — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:25:36 +0000

SyncML is not a work around. It’s a great idea to use an open standard for the communication layer, because it gives you interoperability with third-party sync clients or connectors. But you still have to solve all the problems in the article.

Note the Apple uses SyncML as well: iSync “uses a plug-in architecture based on the SyncML open standard to support virtually all modern handsets” http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/

But most SyncML clients only sync PIM data (not files) so they don’t have to deal with filesystem weirdness. And since they sync structured data that makes sense to them, they can actually resolve conflicts (though that is non trivial either) – file sync apps cannot generally decide how a conflict on binary files should be resolved.

By: Dan Cornish

Dan Cornish — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:08:32 +0000

We have blended version control with dupe checking. The big problem with sync is conflicts. The user gets to decide who wins. In our world, the enterprise software space, the admin should always win, or at least be able to win. This is why version control works because the admin can roll back to any point in time.