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Telecommunications RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server - sans email
Telecommunications RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server - sans email | RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server - sans email |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 25 October 2006 | |
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However some industry analysts question the merits of the move which was foreshadowed in May. In a report published earlier this year, Venture Development Corporation (VDC) suggested that, with the MDS version, "RIM is acknowledging that a large segment of today's enterprise mobility users do not have/require wireless e-mail support." And it said the decision to launch the MDS version "places RIM in uncharted territory in that its trump car - having the best available wireless e-mail solution, bar none - is no longer relevant." Nor does VDC see the RIM network architecture as being well suited to content rich mobile applications. "RIM's model is largely based on continuous/always-on connectivity, which distributes the computer processing away from the client device." This is a potential risk because according to research conducted by VDC, approximately 60 percent of enterprise mobility applications are designed to operate in an occasionally connected manner. "In other words, the application still needs to function even if the device is not connected to a network." RIM lists the features of BlackBerry Enterprise Server for MDS Applications as: - Providing the flexibility for software vendors, third party and in-house developers to create or extend business applications to mobile workers that do not have email accounts or do not require wireless email. - Enabling IT departments that currently manage their applications infrastructure separately from their email infrastructure, with a solution that allows them to deploy wireless applications under the same operational framework. - The ability for customers to leverage the strong and growing community of thousands of Java developers and BlackBerry ISV Alliance Program members developing wireless applications for BlackBerry. - Facilitating the ability for service providers to offer hosted wireless applications, such as a sales force or field service automation application, to their customers, independent of hosting an email environment for those users.{moscomment}
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