Comments on: Blackberry desperate? RIM announces FREE Blackberry Enterprise Server Express.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:38:50 +0000

I believe that this article misses much of the point of the current smart phone competition. This article declares imap the only available alternative to a blackberry enterprise server. This is not the nature of the current playing field. The reason RIM would be willing to give away an enterprise server is because many (most) of the other players in the market support Microsoft’s Exchange Active Sync. This protocol allows every phone from iphones to windows mobile (but not blackberrys) to sync with an Exchange server. This gives all of the benefit of a BES, but with no additional licensing, additional servers, or CAL’s. This (and not imap) is the threat to RIM’s market. Many IT Depts. (like mine) are pushing for using EAS instead of BES for cost and complexity reasons. Let me emphasize again though, that imap was never a consideration (and is not for most organizations), as it really offers very little of what BES or Active Sync do (i.e. no calendar sync, no push mail, no contact sync, etc.)

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mjgraves — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:07:36 +0000

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Michael S. White — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:36:49 +0000

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Fred Posner — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:17:46 +0000

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