Atomic Razor

As a new small business startup owner and small scale consultant, I find myself realising all the bits and pieces that corporate IT (whereever they ended up; Poland I think) provided were actually quite useful.

The one I'm missing the most is Microsoft Exchange Server, or something similar.  The reason being, keeping track of contacts and events is really just hard.  IMAP handles the email stuff perfectly adequately, but for contacts and calander, I am really missing having everything sync'd to all the stuff I need it to.  This came home to me after I set up my home network for the new company and bought myself a work laptop.  There's no straight forward way of keeping all the information straight.

At the moment I'm having to copy the one mobile sync account I have ready and use that as a place holder.

However, it is possible that this will happen no more.  For $50 per user per year, Google will do it for me with Google Apps Premier.  The thing is, it does make me wonder for whom the Exchange Server team actually work for.  MS Sync technology seems to appear in a bewildering array of competing technologies.  Now, I can't complain.  I'm almost certainly going to take advantage of the Google Apps Sync service, but I can't help wondering that there is a finite limit on eating your own lunch.

Next up: Why does the Silverlight team even exist?