note that many companies that use blackberries have their own email servers for blackberry traffic and so were not affected by RIM's outage. It probably only affected those use use RIM's own email systems.
Actually your wrong about the companies having their own servers not being affected. Yes many, probably most companies do have their own BES servers, but those servers depend on a connection to RIMs servers. Having your own BES does not eliminate RIM from the picture, and thus is an added point of failure.
Smartphones on the other hand depend on the cellular provider connection to phone and internet, and the businesses internet connection and exchange servers.
Blackberries depend on the cellular provider connection to phone and internet and RIM as well as businesses internet connection, BES Server and email server.
Much more can go wrong, but on the flip side blackberry did beat MS to the punch, many companies have already heavily invested into the devices and such and for what it does it works great no doubt and offered many features not available until only recently. The best feature in my opinion that blackberries offer over exchange and smartphones is the built in VPN tunnel to the corporate side of things if you have your own BES server. Closest thing for smartphones is third party client like Netmotion XE.
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note that many companies that use blackberries have their own email servers for blackberry traffic and so were not affected by RIM's outage. It probably only affected those use use RIM's own email systems.
Actually your wrong about the companies having their own servers not being affected. Yes many, probably most companies do have their own BES servers, but those servers depend on a connection to RIMs servers. Having your own BES does not eliminate RIM from the picture, and thus is an added point of failure.
Smartphones on the other hand depend on the cellular provider connection to phone and internet, and the businesses internet connection and exchange servers.
Blackberries depend on the cellular provider connection to phone and internet and RIM as well as businesses internet connection, BES Server and email server.
Much more can go wrong, but on the flip side blackberry did beat MS to the punch, many companies have already heavily invested into the devices and such and for what it does it works great no doubt and offered many features not available until only recently. The best feature in my opinion that blackberries offer over exchange and smartphones is the built in VPN tunnel to the corporate side of things if you have your own BES server. Closest thing for smartphones is third party client like Netmotion XE.