RIM mulls new enterprise app

This year RIM plans to unveil a new product called BlackBerry Enterprise Application Middleware (Beam), says Internet.com.

With Beam, application developers will have access to "very simple to use API calls," RIM vice-president Pete Devenyi says.

For example, a company could build an application to find out where all of their employees are located. With one API call, Denenyi explains, a developer can plot the geographic location of every person in a particular group on a map.

Businesses are better off deploying multi-vendor networks, no matter what Cisco and other large network vendors may tell you, according to a recent report from Gartner, reveals PC World.

"The idea of a single-vendor network has been promoted by Cisco (just like strong vendors in other market areas) as a way to simplify operations, ensure reliability and lower the TCO [total cost of ownership] for a network infrastructure," state Gartner analysts Mark Fabbi and Debra Curtis in the report.

"However, after interviewing various organisations that have introduced a second vendor into their Cisco infrastructures, it is clear that in most cases today there is no financial, operational or functional basis for this argument.”

Hardware vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) has spotlighted a new portfolio of data management appliances developed in conjunction with Microsoft, while questions about the uncertain future of Neoview, HP's home-grown data warehouse platform, continued to mount, states Search Data Management.

HP has yet to confirm or flatly deny reports that it has pulled the plug on development plans for Neoview.

Two things are clear: HP will continue to support existing Neoview users regardless of what happens to the product line, and HP is committed to partnering with software vendors like Microsoft on future data warehouse appliance products.