Monday and Tuesday of this week was spent with the calendar interop at Calconnect. I was there as an observer and according to the Calconnect rules I really wasn’t allowed to take an active part in the interop. However, I was able to walk around, talk to the different vendors and at least participate in discussions, if not in the actual testing.<\/p>\n
There were actually two interops going on at the same time. First there was the regular interop, focusing on client-server and server-server interopability. Secondly, there was the mobile interop where mobile vendors were testing their implementations against servers and other both mobile and desktop clients.<\/p>\n
The interop seems to have been very successful in that a lot of things actually worked. A number of things were uncovered, both bugs and standards interpretation issues, but most of them appeared to have been esoteric cases. <\/p>\n
As a representative from a non-vendor the interop is probably not something I will go to in the future, given that we don’t have any software to test, unless we get heavily involved in some open source project. However, it certainly gave me a lot of insight into how Calconnect works as an organization. It has certainly been a two fruitful days. I hope the rest of the week will be as good as it has been up to now.<\/p>\n\n\n