I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
And a comment received from the Sun camp …
“Microsoft’s FUD (the kind we see being dished out here) has failed to stop the BB as a movement. What makes it work is its absolute simplicity. You turn it on email arrives. No hitting buttons. It just works. The newer generation BB works fine as a phone. I’ve been using it for awhile.
Where I do agree is that Exchange is outrageously expense as a mail environment. I used my BB using Sun’s environment, no exchange, $100 per user per year for the entire JES stack. BB is not dependent on MSFT/Exchange from a user perspective. The carrier makes the RIM server transparent.
The only reason I carry another phone is a) the absolutely tragic quality of service in the US and b) it works out cheaper to have two different plans given the volume of minutes I use.
The reality is that both MSFT and BB are in deep trouble once full WiFi is available on these devices because then I switch off MSFT and BB to Skype…â€
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