Frank Castle

Nokia / Microsoft Threat to RIM Is 'Limited' - UBS

SharePoint still has a small % of enterprise using it. Majority are just starting to roll it out and are doing so due to public folder support in Exchange is slowing dying / migrating to SharePoint. Also once you buy into it - it's a pretty big infrastructure often with dedicated staff to maintain and govern it.

Blackberry can view and leverage a SharePoint site decently once you have your BES MDS configured properly and if you want full SharePoint functionality 3rd party solutions are available.

Again James shows what little he knows about this space. Let's see our BES environment is tied into SAP, using Pyxis to extend our Siebel CRM, about to intergrate with Concur Expense Management, via Avaya tied into the PBX, snapped into our enterprise IM OCS, all while providing mobile email on the most secure platform on the market. Not to mention Chalk which will get RIM a ton of business. Does BES have a cost? Sure - just like the expense you risk using iPhone with it's busted encryption and limited security. So pick your poison I guess.

BES is still way ahead of anything on the marker and for large enterprise has a very competitve CB/ROI compared to anything using the ActiveSync hook. Microsoft would make some business by putting some of Mobile Device Manager into Exchange. As noted anyone can open Office Documents with edit capability just fine with DataViz DocstoGo (included with any recent Blackberry) so unsure what this partnership offers.