I hate PylonAnywhere!
There, I said it. I will also take the fall if anyone from work actually reads this, but I truly do hate the thing. If you are not familiar with the product, it is used to sync Lotus Notes mail and PIM data with a Palm or Pocket PC based device. We have had the server in place for 3-4 years now and in that time it has never worked right. The biggest problem I have with it is that it's not even made by the people that we bought it from! It was just before Lotusphere 2006 that we found out it's the Intellisync mobile suite repackaged for Sybase. Even Sybase is moving away from the product in favor of the Extended Systems OneBridge that they purchased last year.
My advice to anyone, if you need access to your Lotus Notes email and PIM data on the go, forget the Palm and go with a BlackBerry Enterprise setup. I deployed 20 of them last week and had NO problems what so ever! I never have any problems with the dang things, they just work!
I'm curious to hear if anyone out there has had success with any application working with Lotus Notes and Palm devices. For us, these things just don't want to work.
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We only allow BES if users want to sync wirelessly. It just works! For PalmOS (and others), we use XTNDConnectPC. This works fairly well for desktop sync.
Funny thing, if you look at the Lotus EasySync application, it uses XTNDConnect dll files and there are other hints that Lotus is a "repackaged" XTNDConnect. I guess it could be that XTNDConnect is a repackaged EasySync, but then why would the dlls be XTND*...? I'm not sure if this is true today, but when I was testing EasySync a few years ago it was the case.
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