posted on Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:48 AM
by
bradley
Blackberry on SBS
<with the caveat that I have not done this>
In order to support Blackberry's on a SBS box you need to purchase SBE Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.0 for Exchange. The docs say it's not "supposed" to be installed on the same server that Exchange is on. But SBSers in the newsgroup report doing so. So while SBSers 'have' done it on SBS, here's my response:
Talk that owner/user into an Audiovox 5600. SOOOO much easier to set up it's not funny. And the cost? Only the cost of the phone.
The cost of the Blackberry Enterprise Server Small Medium Edition 4.0?
... googling now as I'm not sure what it goes for.... WOW
Oh my goodness... you guys are actually spending $1,499 $1,600 [including taxes and shipping] for a 5 user blackberry when I can get the same functionality and more for the price of a smart media phone?
Are you guys insane? You have to be nuts to pay that for adding that to your network when for the mere price of a PHONE you can get everything that the Blackberry does and more?
I mean check out the Siemens SX66. $499 and a slide out keyboard like the Blackberry's. The Audiovox was in the $200 range.
Man, I'm sorry but those Blackberries better do something more than “oh the other Attorneys all have them so we have to have them” for that price. Not when you can get the same functionality in the phone and everything else is automagically in the box ready to go in the SBS 2003 sp1 platform.
P.S. Wow... that Blackberry better be really worth $1,600. Personally I can think of a lot better way to spend a technology budget.