[Macpartners] MIT TechTime - Oracle Sync for Palm 9.0.4 Release Announcement

[Jonathan McIndoe Hunt]

Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2004
To: itpartners, macpartners, winpartners, sw-release-announce, ed-tech, 
techtime-liaisons
From: MIT TechTime PDA Synchronization Release Team
Subject: MIT TechTime - Oracle Sync for Palm 9.0.4 Release Announcement
Cc: is&t, itag at mit.edu

Good afternoon,

Information Services & Technology (IS&T) is pleased to announce the 
availability and support for Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm to enable you to 
synchronize your MIT TechTime calendar with your Palm based PDA.  The 
Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm clients are available for Mac OS X and 
Windows 2000 & XP Professional and can operate without the MIT TechTime 
desktop client released in December.

TechTime is MIT's implementation of Oracle Calendar, an integrated 
campus-wide calendaring system.  With the synchronization clients for Palm, 
you can now synchronize your Palm PDA with your TechTime calendar.  For 
more information on the TechTime service or to register for a free account, 
visit http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/calendaring/techtime.html.

Known Issues
-------------------------------------
- The Oracle address book conduit for Mac OS X does not work.  We have 
provided instructions in the documentation below on how to revert the 
address book conduit back to synchronizing with Palm Desktop.

- Oracle Calendar Sync 9.0.4 only supports up to Palm OS 5.0 meaning that 
brand new Palms, such as the Tungsten E, may not function with the client 
we are releasing.  There are other problems with the latest client from 
Oracle, which is why we are not releasing it at this time.  If you have a 
Palm device running Palm OS 5.2.1 or higher, please contact 
techtime-release at mit.edu, and we can work with you, explain the issues and 
make the latest version available.

- The Oracle Calendar Sync for Pocket PC was found to be unstable in our 
testing, not consistent in its behavior and very dependent on which Pocket 
PC model and version was tested.  We are not releasing the Pocket PC client 
at this time.

Based on a survey of the TechTime client community and on conversations 
with TechTime users, these features were not critical to the majority of 
the client community so we are moving forward with the Oracle Calendar Sync 
for Palm only.  We will continue to work with Oracle to resolve these issues.


Getting Help
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The TechTime at MIT web page, including information on Palm synchronization 
is at
Windows : http://itinfo.mit.edu/product?vid=617
Mac OS X: http://itinfo.mit.edu/product?vid=616

If you have a question or need assistance, please contact the Computing 
Help Desk at computing-help at mit.edu or (617) 253-1101.


How to get Oracle Sync for Palm 9.0.4
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Installers for Mac OS X and Windows are available through the MIT Software 
Page:
http://web.mit.edu/software.


Future Work
----------------------------------------
A release effort launched two weeks ago to release the secure Outlook 
Connector to TechTime.  You can check-in on that release effort by visiting 
the produce release notebook at:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/outlook/.

The SWRT is also working to provide recommendations for other PDA 
applications for web browsing and e-mail to integrate with MIT's 
infrastructure.  We hope to announce a release effort for these PDA 
applications soon.

Thanks,
Jon & the TechTime Release Team

TechTime Release Team
Lee Ridgway
John Hose
Deb Bowser
Jonathan Hunt

__________________________________________
Jonathan McIndoe Hunt     617.253.0172
Manager of Client Software Services
Information Services & Technology, MIT
http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/software/