RIM unassailable in push email but weak in enterprise mobility

Stuart Corner
Monday, 02 October 2006 08:46

IT Industry - Deals

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."

VDC's assessment of the level of threat posed to BlackBerry's mobile email dominance by Microsoft Windows Mobile and Nokia's Intellisync is somewhat at odds with research from IDC which suggested last week that these technologies will pose a serious threat to the BlackBerry.