I am typically considered an early adopter of technology, but for the past few years I have stayed on the sidelines of the smart phone and Blackberry frenzy. Perhaps I got burned too many times in the early days of Palm and WinCE. I needed a breather and was waiting for a device that could truly make mobile life easier.
Roger Matus picks up an interesting blog post by John McKinley, former President of AOL Digital Services, pondering about the future of email, as we know it. McKinley makes the argument that email is long overdue to be displaced by a fundamentally new communication metaphor referring to the onslaught of new tools, such as Twitter, Facebook, SMS, IM and others.
Michael Vizard shares in unusual candor a sentiment in this eWeek article that may resonate well with many who are responsible for managing large Exchange environments.
“Within the land of IT, nothing is a bigger pain to own, manage and run than Microsoft Exchange. Everywhere you go customers have horror stories about the installation, maintenance and, above all, uptime of their Microsoft Exchange implementations. And worse yet, they will all tell you they are paying top dollar for the privilege because the expertise needed to successfully run a Microsoft Exchange server is some of the most expensive in the IT labor pool.”
IBM and Microsoft made a number of interesting announcements during their keynote presentations at the VoiceCon conference held in San Francisco this week.
Michael Osterman of Osterman Research offers a glimpse at some of the findings from his latest study of enterprise instant messaging, presence and real-time communication in this Network World Unified Communication newsletter.
Today is the day that many gadget junkies have been waiting for – Apple’s iPhone is finally going on sale at AT&T wireless stores around the country. Much has been written and reported about its cool features and it will be interesting to see if the fever pitch media hype leading-up to its release can live up to the expectations and real world demands of the common cell phone user.
For many companies currently supporting corporate mobile email through services such as RIM’s Blackberry BES, Microsoft Mobile ActiveSync or Good Technology from Motorola a far different question arises: How will they support the iPhone on their existing infrastructure and what possible security risks does the device pose in the corporate context?
Stefan Mehlhorn is the CEO of Permessa Corp. a Waltham, MA based company providing enterprise messaging management solutions and consulting services to many of the worlds largest corporations.
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