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Here’s good news for users of 30 Boxes and Calgoo Hub. Earlier this week, Calgoo announced two-way iCal synchronization for 30 Boxes, Google Calendar, and Outlook. Calgoo account holders can get started by logging in to their account.

For the uninitiated, 30 Boxes is an on the web calendar that includes to-do lists, event management, people finder and more. Calgoo is a company whose mission in life is to simplify the calendars people use. It’s their new Calgoo Connect service that lets iCal play nicely with these others.

Check it out, and let us know how it goes.

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Sifting through the news from JavaOne this week, I can’t help but wonder when we’ll stop developing our personal silos and truly get into community. Sun is a wonderful company, but I’m with Zonker on this one: Do we really need another operating system, application server, RIA platform, etc.

This isn’t just a Sun platform. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. are all guilty of the same eighth deadly sin of overdevelopment and reinvention of the wheel.

Adobe has AIR. Microsoft has Silverlight. Now Sun has JavaFX. Each does basically the same thing: Make development and deployment of Rich World wide web Applications easier. If asked why they don’t simply collaborate on a core platform, each will likely speak about the infinite advantages of their own platform.

Maybe they’re right. But I doubt it.

… Source:The Open Road

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The Sun faithful who attended the CommunityOne Conference this morning may not have noticed, but Sun and its MySQL executives were very clear about Sun’s open-source strategy going forward, despite news reports that seem to have missed the nuances:

The core will always be 100 percent open source. The periphery…will not. Or might not. It depends.

In response to my first question of the CommunityOne panel Marten Mickos, Senior Vice President of Sun’s Database Group, declared, “I just want to state that the core of MySQL will always be 100 percent free and open source.” The crowd loved it. Ian Murdock said roughly the same thing: The core will be open….

The periphery? Marten indicated that this would be subject to a corporate calculus designed to determine how much peripheral, shut extensions the company can make to encourage buys without alienating its community.

Sun’s future (and according to some, all of our futures) is hybrid. Is this a bad thing?

… Source:The Open Road

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