[ngw] OT: Info World article on smart phone security

[Joshua Pitlick]

Peter,
 
I do agree that the article makes some good points and how your manager arrived at his conclusion.  I will say, as I believe you understood, that some of the information regarding GroupWise is a bit dated, though.
 
Josh

>>> PG <petim123 at gmail.com> 4/26/2010 5:30 PM >>>
Joshua
I agree GroupWise does work. We tried it briefly with IMAP but for other reasons decided to buy NotifyLink. We have the on-premise server. There are a couple of quirks but it works well for us. 

The article seems a little negative about GroupWise and I can see how my manager got the impression that the author is saying that GW doesn't work on iPhones:
"Maybe Novell will finally get serious about mobile -- I know several big customers poised to dump GroupWise if it doesn't."
"If you use Novell GroupWise or Google corporate Gmail, you're restricted to Webmail access and have no ability to manage or secure the iPhone, even with third-party mobile management tools."
"If you use Novell GroupWise, you're stuck with the Mobile Server product, which uses the Nokia IntelliSync technology (discontinued in late 2008) rather than EAS to manage devices; that means each device needs to have an IntelliSync client installed, though Novell is no longer providing the client. Effectively, this limits GroupWise to older Windows Mobile (5.0 and 2003) devices. As noted earlier, Novell is beta-testing an EAS-based replacement ( http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/novell-groupwise-goes-mobile-iphone-support-153 ) for Mobile Server, which it expects to ship by 2011."

I think there are a couple other little nuggets in there. The info about security measure and the chart are good info, though.
Peter

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Joshua Pitlick <JPitlick at acog.org> wrote:


Peter,
I didn't really get the same message as your manager from that article. While the iPhone does not currently integrate with GroupWise, it would be wrong to state that the iPhone does not work with GroupWise. That will change as soon as Novell Data Synchronizer is released, which was mentioned in the article. You can still get mail using POP or IMAP. There are also various tricks for getting contacts and calendar items into the iPhone from GroupWise.
How are your iPhone users getting their mail, calendar and contact into their phones now?
Joshua Pitlick
Lead Systems Engineer
American College of Ob-Gyn
409 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024

>>> PG <petim123 at gmail.com> 4/26/2010 5:01 PM >>>

My manager forwarded this to me and wanted to know why the article says GroupWise doesn't work on iPhones when most of our managers get GroupWise email and pim to their iPhones. I explained to him the author is uninformed.
Kind of long but your thoughts?

http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/how-say-yes-almost-any-smartphone-244?page=0,0 

Peter



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