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The key point in this letter which HN people should be noting is: > To our valued enterprise customers and partners, MDM (Mobile Device Management), EMM (Ente
by cones688 13y ago
The key point in this letter which HN people should be noting is:
> To our valued enterprise customers and partners,
MDM (Mobile Device Management), EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) is to the enterprise IT department what saas, paas, Xaas is to Hacker News, industry language.
On a separate note I still have no idea why Oracle/HP/IBM haven't bought them, clearly so much opportunity seeing as Fortune 500 have still not settled on an effective way to manage mobile devices,
- Easily (for Sysadmin vs Employee),
- Securely (employee privacy vs corporate security)
- Cheaply (BYOD)
BES10 is actually pretty robust and has more features than most of its competitors
- kosei 13y agoThank you for breaking that down. I can't believe that press release had so many acronyms without explanation. Do they expect all customers and potential customers to be able to understand all of that jargon?
- cones688 13y agoBy customers, this is targeted at CISOs (Cheif Information Security Officers) and other senior IT decision makers and Sysadmins. Without being too patronising, this is really really basic jargon for anyone working in the Enterprise IT mobile space - like someone knowing what HTML/CSS/JS stand for/represent in the web dev/design space.
- kosei 13y agoAh, I appreciate that. When I saw customers I thought it was referring to actual consumers (as a former Blackberry owner, myself).
- casca 13y agoA more interesting question is why hasn't Google, Microsoft, Samsung or Apple bought them for their patent portfolio. They've been doing mobile for a long time and historically did things that could genuinely be considered innovative. It's even the kind of thing that Intellectual Ventures probably has the budget to pick up.