Seriously after so many years you would think RIM would have learned how to remove Single Points of Failure from mission critical services! While this is not going to make people run out and buy a Windows Mobile device it will reduce peoples confidence in relying on their BlackBerry.
From Marketwatch.com:

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I came across two posts over the weekend that really perked my interest and decided to share them. First are some live screenshots of OS 4.5 and BES 4.1.5 SP5 live in action. This is some pretty hot stuff delivered courtesy of Jibi from BoyGenius showing us just what to expect in these new releases. It seems [...]

Well you know how RIM likes to make promises? They have finally delivered on one they made months ago by partnering together with Verizon to release the small business oriented BlackBerry Professional Software. This software is more of a watered down BES for 30 or less users.
You can read the glorious press release below:

BlackBerry Professional [...]

RIM has recently been making some serious promises and has yet to deliver on any of them. The funny part is that they keep their new devices under tight wrap until they are released but when it comes to software they just talk and talk for months in advance. These scheduled updates will (supposedly ) [...]

I an email with Josep of Miblackberry he reminded me about a RIM powerpoint released in October 2007 showing the BlackBerry Server roadmap. This powerpoint mentioned clearly that BES 4.1.5 was supposed to bring Rich Content and HTML to BlackBerry emails.

My question is what ever happened to BES 4.1.5? We are waiting RIM! BBSmart and Empower have [...]

I just got an email from The Message Center about a free upgrade for all of their current and future customers. In October The Message Center upped their storage from 500 Megabytes to 1 Gigabyte. As of today the 1 Gigabyte storage has been increased to 3 gigabytes. That translates into 3 Gigabytes of storage with [...]

Lotus Domino has been the stepchild of Microsoft Exchange for quite awhile when it comes to BlackBerry Server Integration. The founders of NotesBerry hope to change that by shedding some light and insight on integrating Lotus with BlackBerry. Most current resources focus on MS Exchange which is probably the reason for creating NotesBerry. Personally I think [...]

ExchangeMyMail has always been one of the heavy hitters in the BES hosting arena. They have just announced today that they are now offering Exchange 2007 hosting for all new accounts. They seem to have worked out all the issues with BES and Exchange 2007 and have had it running smoothly for a month now. [...]