{"id":2377,"date":"2005-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/07\/gartner-stop-mission-critical-blackberry-use\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:41:12","slug":"gartner-stop-mission-critical-blackberry-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/07\/gartner-stop-mission-critical-blackberry-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner: Stop mission-critical BlackBerry use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wait until the RIM\/NTP dust settles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst firm Gartner has advised its clients to halt all mission critical deployments of RIM&#8217;s BlackBerry email devices because of a legal battle that could see a judge effectively shut down the company&#8217;s US operations.<\/p>\n<p>Patent-holding firm NTP contends that it owns the patents for the technology that powers the BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>The research note advises enterprises to &#8220;stop or delay all mission-critical BlackBerry deployments and investments in the platform until RIM&#8217;s legal position is clarified&#8221; because &#8220;US BlackBerry users would lose messaging services&#8230;and international users would lose message service while travelling in the US&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gartner expects the two companies to reach a settlement within three weeks, because an agreement would be &#8220;in both companies&#8217; interests&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There is a possibility RIM could bypass the patent dispute by deploying a workaround but Gartner said this path could be &#8220;highly problematic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gartner, enterprises should &#8220;not sign any agreements that could involve them in the RIM\/NTP dispute&#8221; and &#8220;demand that RIM discloses its workaround plans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/hardware.silicon.com\/pdas\/0,39024643,39154879,00.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}