Comment Re:ECCO for Linux... hmmm... (Score 1) 4
As a long-time Ecco user, I don't think "smart" and "Netmanage" belong in the same sentence. Unless it's the one I just wrote. But it would be wonderful if ecco could be reconstructed as a Linux project (call it "echo", of course).
It seems to me that the structure of the underlying database is not that complex. this may be becasue I am not a programmer; but I have had to think a lot about how to get my information out of ecco and saved somewhere else as it must eventually be.
There was a man in Vermont somwhere working on a program called Zoot which was meant to pick up Ecco users, but the project seems to have died. 3.0 still exists but the promised version 4 never appeared.
Three things that made Ecco uniquely valuable: the ease and flexibility with which you could construct "views" (I suppose they were instantly customised reports); the Shooter, as mentioned, even though this did not often work properly; and it was one of the first PIMs to do synchonisation, so that your laptop and your desktop reinforced each other. Any replacement would have to sychronise with PDAs.
It seems to me that the structure of the underlying database is not that complex. this may be becasue I am not a programmer; but I have had to think a lot about how to get my information out of ecco and saved somewhere else as it must eventually be.
There was a man in Vermont somwhere working on a program called Zoot which was meant to pick up Ecco users, but the project seems to have died. 3.0 still exists but the promised version 4 never appeared.
Three things that made Ecco uniquely valuable: the ease and flexibility with which you could construct "views" (I suppose they were instantly customised reports); the Shooter, as mentioned, even though this did not often work properly; and it was one of the first PIMs to do synchonisation, so that your laptop and your desktop reinforced each other. Any replacement would have to sychronise with PDAs.
