CTIA show faces reality of mixed mobile nets

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE
ENTERPRISE
10/03/05
Today's focus: CTIA show faces reality of mixed mobile nets

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Today's focus: CTIA show faces reality of mixed mobile nets

By Joanie Wexler

If last week's CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2005 show in San
Francisco had a theme, I would say it was "heterogeneity."

There was a growing awareness that multiple mobile operating
systems, client devices and even carriers will be a fact of life
in the enterprise for the foreseeable future. The reason can be
chalked up to differences in enterprise user device preferences
and needs, as well as diversity in coverage requirements across
domestic and international geographies.

And enterprise IT departments need ways to provide access from
all these devices and locations to corporate resources. They
also need to centrally manage and secure smart devices that
contain sensitive information. These requirements are motivating
some vendor companies to act.

For example, the day before the CTIA exhibit floor opened, Palm
and Microsoft announced that Palm would be licensing Microsoft's
Mobile 5.0 mobile operating system to run on its Treo 600 and
650 smartphones. As a result, users of the devices will be able
to choose between the PalmOS and Windows Mobile 5.0 operating
systems. Mobile 5.0-enabled Treos, to be available for use on
the Verizon Wireless EV-DO (500K-700K bit/sec) network in early
2006, would allow Treo users to connect to their corporate
Exchange e-mail servers and deploy corporate applications
written for Windows.

The move exemplifies an acknowledgement that more handhelds need
to support access to back-end corporate resources. To date,
Treos have succeeded more as consumer-centric devices; the move
gives them more of an enterprise play. And, to date, Microsoft
operating system-enabled devices do a good job of allowing
access to Microsoft resources only. Beyond that, Research In
Motion's BlackBerry, with its Enterprise Server, has been the
only architecture allowing users of handhelds access to their
full suite of back-end apps.

For getting the enterprise IT control tentacles around disparate
devices, operating systems and networks, Good Technology
announced that it would support the combo Palm-Mobile 5.0
devices with its centralized management, application-update, and
security software. It also plans to support the Symbian OS
(Nokia devices) in 2006.

Meanwhile, start-up Orative Technology was on the show floor,
explaining that its presence management software is both device-
and carrier-agnostic. Orative's enterprise software enables
business users to screen voice calls based on caller identity,
subject matter, identity and the called user's availability.
President and CEO Paul Fulton explains that the software runs
SSL encryption and single sign-on authentication, and that
corporate IT has the ability to centrally deactivate lost phones
and erase sensitive information from remote devices.

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To contact: Joanie Wexler

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology
writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most
of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer
networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles
published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future
article topics. Reach her at <mailto:joanie@jwexler.com>.
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Orative develops mobile software that lets employees reach the
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running on mobile phones, Orative software gives employees the
ability to reach co-workers so that they can ask for help, make
decisions and move business forward. Orative transforms the
mobile phone into a true business phone. Find out more at
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=116689
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