Originally Posted by Outrigger

you can always try The Message Center Exchange Hosting. I have been with them for over a year now. with BES its 18.95 a month 500mb of storage. you can also change your plan ANYTIME you want i.e. take off BES and add goodlink, or sharepoint...etc. all from a control panel without calling or emailing support. and i also have never experienced any down time on their server for the entire time.

Originally Posted by asuandy

if i already have BIS, is there any point to getting BES?

Originally Posted by takeshi

You might want to visit BlackberryFAQ.com and read up on BES. Without knowing your needs/wants and whether they correspond to the additional features of BES there's no way to tell. Most people probably wouldn't see much benefit.

Originally Posted by drewdinardo

Someone introduced me to a company yesterday that is suppose to be able to do for blackberry; treo; wm5; what BES does for blackberry but at a lower cost. The company is genielook.com. Anyone familiar with it?

Originally Posted by Ashton

If you have BIS/MDS then nothing save email and a few syncronization abilities (OTA sync), I however do not have BIS with my plan, I'm on a pure cellular phone plan (literally pulled my SIM out of my phone and put it in my BB, nothing more), so the only intenet access I have is using opera mini, which looks for ANY avalible TCP connection. Most of the 3rd party BB apps run through or install through the BB browser, which refuses to do anything because I lack the Browser servicebooks.

I'm acctually looking at it more for the BIS/MDS hosting than the BES (every single email I have has a webmail login avalible) but, it's a package deal, or I pay $40 a month IN ADDITION to my phone plan for BIS, I dont have that kind of money laying around every month (I'm acctually going to be canceling my Napster subscription to pay for BES/MDS hosting --- though for me it's really a much better deal since I use it a hellova lot more than I used Napster --- and I'll still have an extra $5 a month left over!)

Originally Posted by mstrange

I have seen a large thread about ExchangeMyMail which it seems everyone likes. They also offer 10% discount to forum members. So they end up costing $22.50/month for hosted exchange and BES service.

I looked at the mail2web web site and they offer hosted exchange and BES service for $18.90/month ($8.95 for Business Exchange Professional + $9.95 for BES) which is an apples to apples for what ExhangeMyMail offers.

Mail2web also offers a personal exchange account for $1.99/Month and you can add BES for $9.95 = $11.94/month, but this email is , BUT it allows for "Ability to change the Primary From Address" so you could forward your email to the account and then change the FROM address. This sounds like a lot of coordination??

I am a Realtor and am going to my first Blackberry. Our Multiple Listing Service will have a handheld interface out in the next few weeks and this will allow me to lookup from my BB listing info for clients. I want also to get full sync via BES from what I have read on this forum, but I need my email coming and going from or at least the appearance of it.

Any input would help! Thanks and this forum is GREAT!

Mike

Originally Posted by asuandy

if i already have BIS, is there any point to getting BES?

Originally Posted by webdave

BES lets you sync Email, Calendar, To Do's, Contacts, and Notes wirelessly (2-way). It will also let you use the connection to connect to internal resources (company intranet, chat, internal servers, etc...).

BIS is a 1 way sync for email.

Originally Posted by giff74

I lived in TreoWorld for a long time, thank goodness I wised up, so I am still learning about BB's. I would really appreciate it someone could dumb down BIS and BES for me. I dont even know what I have. I am on Sprints network and use their data plan. I have access to both my work and gmail accts as well the web throught the built in browser. I think this is BIS??? I am not understanding the things I am reading about BES, what more would it add (assuming I not totally confused and already have it)?

Thanks, Giff

Originally Posted by giff74

I missed this post before I asked my question above. I have two-way email access and browser access. Do I not really have either one, just using a data plan?

Originally Posted by joeygator

Is your work email sync'd or is it forwarded to an email on your BB? Also, does it copy your tasks, calendar etc. to your work application(lotus notes, outlook, etc). If so, it sounds like you have BES and BIS both set up. If not, then you probably just have BIS. Also, if your employer provided the device, ask someone in your IT department if it is set up on BES.

Originally Posted by giff74

I am not sure, my BB gets email at the same time my computer gets it.

I use ACT! on my computer and I have to use a physical cord and hot sync the BB using Companion Link.

I am my employer and am way to cheap to pay myself an IT salary.

Thanks, Giff