"The developers at Opened Hand have released a pair of lightweight, low-resource applications for calendaring and address book management. They were designed to run on small embedded systems such as Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet and the Sharp Zaurus--but that doesn't mean you can't use them on your desktop Linux box just as easily.
"Both Dates and Contacts (the calendar and address book, respectively) are built to interact with Evolution Data Server (EDS). EDS was originally written for Ximian's Evolution email/calendar/addrebbook/tasklist client to expose Evolution's database of contacts, calendar events, and email desktop-wide, thus allowing easy integration with other applications..."