Has anyone out there tested the MS exchange 2003 SP2 beta with a mobile 5.0 device?

MS has been talking a lot about it, but i havent heard much from people beta testing.

Is there any word on how it compares to running RIM devices and BES servers?

SP2 is final and working fine.

The device part of mobile 5 is there but the now renamed from Messaging and Security Feature Pack'en (MSFP) to Enterprise Feature Pack'en (EFP)
wont be out until early Q1

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is there any sense as to how this will compare to RIM

cheaper , less featues, less encryption , less management

There is a doc on microsoft describing the new feature set, MS problem always been the devices and most likely still will be , there are just to many bad devices around , the 3-4 diff mobile 5 devices i have is running way better than pocketpc2003

RIM is untoutchable in the enterprise/financial/us market but in lesser dominated markets(regions and SMB i think they will need to think about their pricing/feature sets.

alot just need mail and honestly dont care about super duper jedi encryption , what they care about is the ability to get mail and use TomTom or whatever app they normally use.

Anyways before this turns into a religion war im off :D

Thanks.

I am surprised that you are the only one familiar with the upgrade. I had expected that some companies would run both RIM and MS mobile 5 devices - depending on user preference.

alot here knows about it is my feeling , but its like talking about microsoft in a linux forum ,

we been using ms sync since it came out and other non rim 3rd party stuff, blackbery didnt get here until 7 months ago so its still new here

Additionally, my understanding is that the MSFP will be released on a per-service provider/per device type basis; meaning that it won't be Microsoft per se that releases it. It will be your service provider.

I am not holding my breath on this. I seriously think this is the MS Marketing machine at its finest.