04.11.2013 19:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

In Wake of BlackBerry's Demise, CIOs Look to Samsung, Apple and Microsoft

BlackBerry's dramatic fall in the enterprise has left CIOs scrambling to pick a new mobile platform provider. Will it be Apple? Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or it will be all of the above.[ Fade to Black(Berry): 8 Years Covering the Rise and Fall of RIM ]"The entire landscape has shifted in a very short time," says Ojas Rege, vice president of strategy at mobile device management (MDM) vendor MobileIron, "and the key lesson is that it will continue to shift. When consumers call the shots, technologies can come and go rapidly."It wasn't so long ago when CIOs looked to BlackBerry, then called RIM, as a safe bet to build their mobile strategy. BlackBerry-only shops sprouted up across the country. Then came the iPhone, and the start of BlackBerry's troubles. A steady stream of companies has been leaving BlackBerry for a while now -- but lately there's been a rush.

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