Blackberry

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my company is investigating the possibility to install notes on blackberry devices. Does the setup entails to install another domino server?

thanks

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Subject: Blackberry

There is not a simple answer to this.

BlackBerry does support a “single” mail and BES server with their smaller editions (less then 15 or 30 users) because it is recognized that the cost of a second piece of hardware, licenses, etc was too much to ask for a small install. If you are rolling out a large install (30 - 250 users) then yes a separate server with Domino license (unless you are Express which has no limits on licenses) is required since the BES sits on top of a Domino server and uses NRPC to communicate with the mail servers.

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Subject: Great alternative to Blackberry with better device support

I can recommend a great alternative service to Blackberry which provides native realtime mobile Domino email, calendaring & contacts support for many types of devices including:* Windows Mobile (5 & 6)

  • Smartphones

  • Pocket PC

  • Symbian

  • Brew

  • Java

The same mobile device client supports multi-inboxes hence also provides native support for:

  • Exchange

  • Yahoo

  • Gmail

  • Hotmail

  • POP3

  • IMAP

No special hardware is required. We’ve been running it for over 18 months now and supports all our Domino users. All you need to do is to install connector software which provides connectivity between mobile devices and the Domino server. We’ve installed this on our Domino server itself and runs well.

Best of all you can currently get it for free at:

http://preview.seven.com

Regards,

Alex

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Subject: RE: Great alternative to Blackberry with better device support

Alex - do you have any affiliation with the product?

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Subject: Blackberry

The Blackberry for Domino requires it to be installed on the same box / OS as a Domino Server. This does not mean you need to install another server but it would be advisable. This is because the Blackberry Manager will also need SQL access. The load on your mail server would increase and having a Blackberry server alone increases connections and reads to your server by 1.5 connections per user.

It would be advised for you to have a seperate BES server.

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Subject: RE: Blackberry

So you would need an extra server licence? am I correct?thanks.