Question about Notifylink and Blackberry

You're scaring me...

Here at Keele University I have been tasked to find a shared calendar 
solution that works with these new fangled PDA's and phones.

I was impressed with the number of Universities running Meeting Maker 
and recently downloaded the evaluation copy.  I've just abandoned that 
as the new version doesn't support mobile clients directly and instead 
works through Notify Link so there's no point in evaluating MMCO and 
Intellisync.  We're a mostly Linux shop here so the lack of a Linux 
version of Notify Link until 2007 is a bit of a shame but I was still 
happy to go with an evaluation of it once I can get a copy.

However I notice that on this list there's a lot of discontent with the 
product and not a lot of support for the new 8.6 version with Notify 
Link.  This is scaring me and making me think that Meeting Maker isn't 
the right choice after all.

Is there anyone out there with an 8.5.* version who is really happy with 
the product?

Has anyone evaluated the new Notify Link product with 8.6 and decided to 
deploy it?

What alternatives is everyone looking at?

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Re: Question about Notifylink and Blackberry

Odd, have not seen that behavior with testing 2 Cingular Blackberry 7290's. I 
been enjoying the idea of seperate support from Meeting maker that just 
handles devices.

Jack Newton

From: Bob DeSilets <desilets <at> ISC.UPENN.EDU>
Date: 2006/11/03 Fri AM 08:19:43 CST
To: MMXP-TALK <at> LISTSERV.EMORY.EDU
Subject: Question about Notifylink and Blackberry

Hello,
Is anyone out there using/testing NotifyLink with Meeting Maker 8.6?  We've 
seen two different BlackBerry units exhibit a spinning hourglass until the 
battery runs out since beginning our testing.  I wanted to see if anyone else 
has been having any difficulties/successes with running this setup.
Thanks!
Bob
 --------------------------------Bob DeSiletsSr. IT Support 
Specialistdesilets <at> isc.upenn.edu215-898-0067

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Re: You're scaring me...

This discussion list I've sometimes termed the "Meeting Maker Flame List" as 
some small set of users seem to prefer to continuously bash the product 
instead of use the vast amount of knowledge the people on this list hold to 
gain a better experience. There are still many people here that still like 
and use the product. 

Jack Newton

From: Jonathan Knight <j.knight <at> KIS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Date: 2006/11/20 Mon AM 04:47:35 CST
To: MMXP-TALK <at> LISTSERV.EMORY.EDU
Subject: You're scaring me...

Here at Keele University I have been tasked to find a shared calendar 
solution that works with these new fangled PDA's and phones.

I was impressed with the number of Universities running Meeting Maker 
and recently downloaded the evaluation copy.  I've just abandoned that 
as the new version doesn't support mobile clients directly and instead 
works through Notify Link so there's no point in evaluating MMCO and 
Intellisync.  We're a mostly Linux shop here so the lack of a Linux 
version of Notify Link until 2007 is a bit of a shame but I was still 
happy to go with an evaluation of it once I can get a copy.

However I notice that on this list there's a lot of discontent with the 
product and not a lot of support for the new 8.6 version with Notify 
Link.  This is scaring me and making me think that Meeting Maker isn't 
the right choice after all.

Is there anyone out there with an 8.5.* version who is really happy with 
the product?

Has anyone evaluated the new Notify Link product with 8.6 and decided to 
deploy it?

What alternatives is everyone looking at?

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(_/ (_) / / Fax      : +44 1782 713082   Staffordshire.  ST5 5BG.  U.K.

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Re: You're scaring me...

--On 20 November 2006 07:05:30 -0600 Jack C Newton 
<jackcnewton <at> VERIZON.NET> wrote:

> This discussion list I've sometimes termed the "Meeting Maker Flame List"
> as  some small set of users seem to prefer to continuously bash the
> product  instead of use the vast amount of knowledge the people on this
> list hold to  gain a better experience. There are still many people here
> that still like  and use the product.
>
> Jack Newton

That's true. Unfortunately, Meeting Maker (er, PeopleCube) seem to spend 
more time rebranding and acquiring new products than they do developing 
Meeting Maker. They've completely failed to adopt open standards, and the 
product -while pretty good and stable for what it does- just doesn't work 
nicely with the rest of the world.

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Deleting duplicate events in MMXP 7.5

	The Meeting Maker Support web page doesn't have an answer for this...
	Aside from using Remove Duplicates add-in on {Palm Desktop and having 
the Palm overwrite MM, is there a way to remove duplicate meetings from 
within MM?

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Re: Deleting duplicate events in MMXP 7.5

Re: You're scaring me...

Meeting Maker has done a great deal to annoy people.

I have been a user since the beginning and I have noticed buggy software 
being released.   Bugs happen but software should not be released when 
basic functions do not work.   All my linux people picked up PCs so they 
would not have to deal with the html client.

MMCO, we have a bug that sends the process to 100%.   They patch it and 
introduce another bug where the client drops and connects 
continuously.   I have a support case sent them log files and they will 
not respond to questions anymore.

So yes.  In some cases they earned the flaming......

Jack C Newton wrote:
> This discussion list I've sometimes termed the "Meeting Maker Flame List" as 
> some small set of users seem to prefer to continuously bash the product 
> instead of use the vast amount of knowledge the people on this list hold to 
> gain a better experience. There are still many people here that still like 
> and use the product. 
>
> Jack Newton
>
>
> From: Jonathan Knight <j.knight <at> KIS.KEELE.AC.UK>
> Date: 2006/11/20 Mon AM 04:47:35 CST
> To: MMXP-TALK <at> LISTSERV.EMORY.EDU
> Subject: You're scaring me...
>
> Here at Keele University I have been tasked to find a shared calendar 
> solution that works with these new fangled PDA's and phones.
>
> I was impressed with the number of Universities running Meeting Maker 
> and recently downloaded the evaluation copy.  I've just abandoned that 
> as the new version doesn't support mobile clients directly and instead 
> works through Notify Link so there's no point in evaluating MMCO and 
> Intellisync.  We're a mostly Linux shop here so the lack of a Linux 
> version of Notify Link until 2007 is a bit of a shame but I was still 
> happy to go with an evaluation of it once I can get a copy.
>
> However I notice that on this list there's a lot of discontent with the 
> product and not a lot of support for the new 8.6 version with Notify 
> Link.  This is scaring me and making me think that Meeting Maker isn't 
> the right choice after all.
>
> Is there anyone out there with an 8.5.* version who is really happy with 
> the product?
>
> Has anyone evaluated the new Notify Link product with 8.6 and decided to 
> deploy it?
>
> What alternatives is everyone looking at?
>
>
>
>   

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Re: You're scaring me...

I wasn't going to deploy 8.6 because we have had nothing but problems 
with 8.5.x

However, we have been playing with Notifylink and found them to be 
rather good for support and really know their stuff.

I am going to roll out 8.6.    I figure the notifylink stuff will be 
good but the rest?   Well we shall see.....

Jonathan Knight wrote:
> Here at Keele University I have been tasked to find a shared calendar 
> solution that works with these new fangled PDA's and phones.
>
> I was impressed with the number of Universities running Meeting Maker 
> and recently downloaded the evaluation copy.  I've just abandoned that 
> as the new version doesn't support mobile clients directly and instead 
> works through Notify Link so there's no point in evaluating MMCO and 
> Intellisync.  We're a mostly Linux shop here so the lack of a Linux 
> version of Notify Link until 2007 is a bit of a shame but I was still 
> happy to go with an evaluation of it once I can get a copy.
>
> However I notice that on this list there's a lot of discontent with 
> the product and not a lot of support for the new 8.6 version with 
> Notify Link.  This is scaring me and making me think that Meeting 
> Maker isn't the right choice after all.
>
> Is there anyone out there with an 8.5.* version who is really happy 
> with the product?
>
> Has anyone evaluated the new Notify Link product with 8.6 and decided 
> to deploy it?
>
> What alternatives is everyone looking at?
>
>
>

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Re: Deleting duplicate events in MMXP 7.5

Bob ---
	So I guess this means there is nothing within MM itself?

Bob DeSilets wrote:
> I've been using Undupe from Steven's Creek software for years to solve 
> this problem:
> 
> http://www.stevenscreek.com/palm/undupe.html
> 
> Haven't found a better solution.
> 
> Bob
> 
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> Sr. IT Support Specialist
> desilets <at> isc.upenn.edu <mailto:desilets <at> isc.upenn.edu>
> 215-898-0067
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:45 AM, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> 
>> The Meeting Maker Support web page doesn't have an answer for this...
>> Aside from using Remove Duplicates add-in on {Palm Desktop and having 
>> the Palm overwrite MM, is there a way to remove duplicate meetings 
>> from within MM?
>>
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>> --- C&IS Support Specialist
>> --- Yale University School Of Medicine
>> --- Dermatology Department
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