Wednesday, October 06, 2004
a big uh-oh for goodlink
interesting news from the software licensing front yesterday as palm announced that it will be licensing exchange connectivity directly from microsoft so that future devices (including smartphones) will have "out of the box" connectivity and integration with microsoft exchange 2003 server. what does this mean? well for one, it means that the connectivity is built-in - there will no longer be a need for a third party software solution for palm devices to provide over-the-air or cradled synchronization between enterprise or personal PIM data and email.
goodlink built its current business on providing a powerful, yet simple, third party application that could run on RIM mobitext devices and palm treo smartphones. the product is considered to more reliable and robust than the blackberry software, but what will this mean to goodlink's palm family of offerings once palm begins to offer this connectivity as part of the hardware product? goodlink has been making a concerted effort to build its pocket pc offering however industry insiders rumble over the fact that this is a waste of time because many of today's pocket pc devices lack an integrated keyboard which is a key demand of mobile executives.
goodlink built its current business on providing a powerful, yet simple, third party application that could run on RIM mobitext devices and palm treo smartphones. the product is considered to more reliable and robust than the blackberry software, but what will this mean to goodlink's palm family of offerings once palm begins to offer this connectivity as part of the hardware product? goodlink has been making a concerted effort to build its pocket pc offering however industry insiders rumble over the fact that this is a waste of time because many of today's pocket pc devices lack an integrated keyboard which is a key demand of mobile executives.
# posted by Chad Stoller @ 9:15 AM 
