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Thursday, 25 February 2010 00:00 |
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RIM recently launched BES Express, a stripped down version of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, its well known mobile messaging server. It will be evailable for free, and is targeted towards small and medium sized businesses which could earlier not afford BES. It allows users to push data to their BlackBerry devices, and synch information with MS Exchange or Small Business Server wirelessly. As Larry Dignan said in his recent article at ZDNet, the latest development is RIM's attempt to keep its products on small business servers. According to him, it should have ideally been a hosted service, not expecting companies to load and manage anything on their own servers. Moreover, BES Express also assumes that SMBs already have MS Exchange installed on their servers. Although this may be true for mid sized businesses, the MS Exchange burden itself is too much for small businesses. So there is a great gap for a solution that pushes email, contacts, calendars and tasks and synchs them wirelessly, irrespective of device, and does not require any software hosted on the users servers. HyperOffice say they have that covered with a soon to be announced mobile collaboration solution. Lets see what they offer.
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