RIM's BIG Announcement, this Tuesday - Is It Free BESx ?

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Rumor has it, RIM is expected to make a huge announcement this Tueday at MWC (Mobile World Congress)2010, held in Barcelona. The source seems to be from RIM employees, saying that Mike Lazaridis will be talking about BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX). The services will be launched free as a BlachBerry Enterprise Server which is really exciting. The assumption is that BESX will be using your existing BIS data plan, without having to upgrade to a more expensive one.

Additionally, there’s the “BlackBerry Shield for BIS” that might get some mentions. As folks are still not sure what exactly the shield is yet, BGR guesses that it might be a remote lock and device wipe feature for BIS subscribers.

Can it be the Microsoft "ActiveSync killer", as there are still many corporations relying and using it in the workplace. RIM is bringing out services to even match ActiveSync would be awesome, and will definitely attract more user. A RIM employee adds - “Internally we are pumped about it. Perfect for SME, and people who are looking at using ActiveSync with other smartphones. It’s not quite RIM-like, giving software with unlimited users away, but a great move.”

To us, tt seem too good to be true. The idea of having free BES via BIS seems like a great idea, but if you think about it, this means we’ll be having OTA syncing without physically “having” that server. Are they thinking shared servers? Is it going to be reliable?

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