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Akonadi - The PIM Storage Service

    * Common PIM data cache
    o Type agnostic design
    o Extensible
    o Generic offline access, change recording and replay
    o Generic conflict detection and resolution
    o Resources are groupable by profile
    o Items composed of independently retrievable multiple parts
    o Zero-copy retrieval possible

    * Concurrent access allows background activity independent of UI client
        o Syncing mail, calendar, addressbooks to remote servers
    o Syncing with mobile devices
    o Permits semantic desktop infrastructure to access PIM data
    o Archiving
    o Indexing
    o Out-of-process search
    * Multi-process design
        o Crash isolation
    o Large items can't block whole system
    o Linkage by IPC allows proprietary components
    o Thin client installations can share components for scalability

WWW:    http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/