RE: Email on the move (PDAs)

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian (& All)



Back to the subject of mobile email.  Having spoken to quite a few salesmen
all offering PDA-based software that's like "BlackBerry on
steroids", it
does, unsurprisingly, turn out that it's more like BlackBerry on a Class A
drug, in that it works fine for a bit, and then just falls apart. I've only
tried a couple of apps, but generally they all seem to be a big compromise
over either BB or just mobile Exchange on a PDA (assuming that works well).



Therefore, we've kind of gone full circle, and are back to considering
Exchange2003.  Currently the corporate standard is v5.5, so I'm not going
to
change that in a hurry, but before I go down and bug the IT guys, given
that
I've got the Action Pack (thus a copy of Exchange 2003 Standard and
Enterprise), and a spare server, is it as 'simple' as setting up a new
Exchange server for just a few users to run a proof of concept?  Will
Exchange2003 happily co-exist with 5.5?



Thanks, Pete



_____

From: Ian [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 May 2005 15:25
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Email on the move (PDAs)



> For reasons too complicated to go into, my company has had to scrap a
proposed
> BlackBerry rollout.  This is a big PITA, as it just worked so well.

Woohoo!! Substance wins over Hype once more ;)

I'm with Adam - Pocket PC using OMA (Outlook Mobile Access) against an
Exchange 2003 backend rocks. I use it with an additional layer, in that I
go
PDA > bluetooth > Nokia 6230 > OMA, but it's pretty flawless.

The beauty, of course, is that as soon as you are using Pocket PC 2003
based
kit, you have access to the whole Compact .NET framework and can write up
nicely integrated solutions using SQL CE edition, web services etc etc etc.

Blackberry's biggest failing, imo, is the lack of that rich and easy to
access development environment.

Ian.








_____