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Thursday, May 04, 2006
Informa expects mobile corporate e-mail to triple by 2011
I'd argue that this is a conservative figure, as the need is there, and the RIM/NTP "affair" has made people more aware of the possibilities.
I agree though that RIM and others will get competition from non-proprietary services that use what's in mainstream phones already, like WAP/WML, Java, and not the least the often built-in e-mail client. Microsoft has a very good chance to dominate here, by inherently supporting this in Exchange.
It should be noted that many companies still don't use Exchange 2003, where you get full access to Outlook functionality via WML and ActiveSync (the latter for Windows Mobile only). Even with Exchange 5.5 you can though achieve mobile e-mail, by simply using the e-mail client most phones already have and accessing Exchange via SMTP/IMAP4. You have to open the firewall for those protocols though. A Java ME application for Exchange would make the user experience a bit better, but I doubt Microsoft will release that.
Mobile E-Mail Usage To Triple By 2011 Says Report - Yahoo! News
I agree though that RIM and others will get competition from non-proprietary services that use what's in mainstream phones already, like WAP/WML, Java, and not the least the often built-in e-mail client. Microsoft has a very good chance to dominate here, by inherently supporting this in Exchange.
It should be noted that many companies still don't use Exchange 2003, where you get full access to Outlook functionality via WML and ActiveSync (the latter for Windows Mobile only). Even with Exchange 5.5 you can though achieve mobile e-mail, by simply using the e-mail client most phones already have and accessing Exchange via SMTP/IMAP4. You have to open the firewall for those protocols though. A Java ME application for Exchange would make the user experience a bit better, but I doubt Microsoft will release that.
Mobile E-Mail Usage To Triple By 2011 Says Report - Yahoo! News
