Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

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Well, I did it again....I bought another piece of software that is kind of work related. At least I own the hardware that the software is going on, this time

I work at Kansas State University, where we use Oracle Calendar for scheduling... And, I've been looking for a way to sync my work calendar with my Blackberry. Both when I had just the 7100t and now that I have the 8703e.

I had originally looked at trying to do the round about way of syncing with Outlook first, but couldn't get that to work. And, it turns out that syncing my Blackberry to Outlook after syncing with Oracle Calendar was a bad thing. Apparently, this a known problem though....Outlook with Oracle Calendar, bad

Anyways, after hearing of other people also working on syncing their blackberry's with Oracle Calendar, I set out to look for a method as well. I heard that there were SyncML clients available that might solve this. I tried a number of different ones...the free ones didn't work out for me, but this one did...and after 10 days of trying it, I've decided to go and buy it.

BTW, the hardest part of getting this to all work was figuring out the URL to have the client connect to. I found it to be:

https://kcalendar.k-state.edu/ocas-bin/ocas.fcgi?sub=syncml

And, it was interesting that I had to find it using Google .... which took me to a different University's IT support page. But, that isn't totally unusual....