Linux.com: Micro-Evolution: Dates and Contacts | Linux Today

Linux.com: Micro-Evolution: Dates and Contacts

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 13, 2006

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“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…”


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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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