Wednesday
May092007
Calendaring interoperability woes
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 2:44 It amazes me to no end that such a simple and fundamental problem as calendaring could not be solved after decades of advances in our field. We put a man on the Moon, for god's sake! Why can't we make Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar and Apple iCal work together well?
Reader Comments (4)
I guess the answer is in your own words... they put a man on the Moon... ;-)
And they want to do it again by 2018... Not sure I understand what you mean. Software Development is not that juvenile. Although I have to agree, we have a long way to go before we reach our Moon.
GCal has a pretty simple API already. Once iCal adds CalDAV support in Leopard, we'll just need a little app that can translate b/w CalDAV and GCal's API. Outlook sucks and will probably never support an open standard properly.
At the moment, I am using http://spanningsync.com/.