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 Why wait and wonder?
Why wait for BBConnect? And wonder about the BlackBerry service? There are plenty of good push email solutions available for Palm OS, from vendors like Intellisync, Visto and Consilient, to name a few. Don't want to pay the license fees? Funambol just released their open source push email product for carriers and the enterprise Works great on Palm OS devices. In fact, if I'm not mistaken it works with (literally) a half billion devices that support SyncML.  RE: Why wait and wonder?
Because my company already has a RIM box on site. I can upgrade my 600 to a 650, and not bother with the RIM unit itself. Plus, it will be on Palm OS, not Windows :) RE: Why wait and wonder?upsidedown @ 2/17/2006 9:28:47 AM #
Easy. My company mandates BB. If i can get BB Connect I will hopefully have new device options that will work seamlessly with our approved system. RE: Why wait and wonder?
Thanks, yeah, I realize that companies that already have BB boxes deployed will welcome support of new devices. My question was this: is there really a good reason to deploy BB servers now when there are good (and open source) solutions that don't lock you in to BB devices? RE: Why wait and wonder?
I dig open source and use a lot of open source software myself - but for IT @ most companies it probably makes sense from a support perspective to go with BB. Most companies will pay the $$$ just to have the security of using a 'standard' solution; BB is the standard in this space at the moment. Visto, etc are not getting anywhere yet, but MS will of course with the new exchange push feature - the biggest threat to BB dominance. RE: Why wait and wonder?
> They claim their core sync technology (previously called Sync4J) > has averaged 23,000 downloads a month, making it > "the world’s most popular open source project." 23,000 downloads a month?? They must not have heard of projects such as, uh, Mozilla Firefox :) Maybe their statement wasn't quite as general and broad?
RE: Why wait and wonder?
They must not have heard of projects such as, uh, Mozilla Firefox :)
Probably not. They've been pretty busy since the VC money started pouring in. :-P
BB web clientMarshall Flinkman @ 2/16/2006 9:17:46 PM #
Will it support this? (i.e. what individual Blackberry users, rather than corporations with in-house servers, use) So far, I haven't seen any mention one way or the other. RE: BB web clientjust_little_me @ 2/19/2006 4:03:11 PM #
It's BES only - no BIS support in this version from what I've seen.
No need for BWC
Blackberry Connect is just intended to allow those companies who have purchased the BES to connect other devices to that BES.
BBC and BWC are irrelevant to one another. BWC is just intended for an individual user, as you stated - there are TONS of those same type solutions available for Treos and such, out there.
Why isn't Microsoft's Direct Push email on Palm devices yet?The_Voice_of_Reason @ 2/20/2006 2:10:54 AM #
Let's see: Palm is an ActiveSync licensee. ActiveSync licensees can add Direct Push if they choose. What is Palm waiting for? Couldn't this have been added to the Treo 650 by now? 3 years after PalmSource announced they were planning to add Blackberry support we still have bupkis. http://www.palmsource.com/press/2003/050603_RIM.html TVoR ------------------------ The Palm eCONomy = Communism™ The Great Palm Swindle: http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=7864#108038 NetFrontLinux - the next major cellphone OS?: http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=8060#111823 RE: Why isn't Microsoft's Direct Push email on PalmSeldomVisitor @ 2/20/2006 7:33:13 AM #
Power requirements, probably.
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