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tobyw · 03-23-2007, 06:19 PM

I think you need to look into the cost of BES Express given the advantages over using BIS as mentioned above. I don't know where you are located, but some carriers will subsidise the cost of this if, for example, you were taking out 5 new phone contracts. RIM states that you should run BES on a separate server, but the requirements would not be very high for 5 users. I support a BES Express for 1 user(!) and this runs quite happily on a server I got from eBay. This was relatively low cost as it included a Windows 2000 COA so I didn't have to buy an OS.

To be honest, BES was a bit of a pig to install and get set up, but once up and running it has been maintenance free.

03-23-2007, 06:19 PM	#6 (permalink)
tobyw Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Model: 8100 Carrier: T-Mobile UK Posts: 278 Post Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I think you need to look into the cost of BES Express given the advantages over using BIS as mentioned above. I don't know where you are located, but some carriers will subsidise the cost of this if, for example, you were taking out 5 new phone contracts. RIM states that you should run BES on a separate server, but the requirements would not be very high for 5 users. I support a BES Express for 1 user(!) and this runs quite happily on a server I got from eBay. This was relatively low cost as it included a Windows 2000 COA so I didn't have to buy an OS. To be honest, BES was a bit of a pig to install and get set up, but once up and running it has been maintenance free.
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