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RIM’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server has traditionally run on Novell Groupwise and Microsoft Exchange servers, which covers the vast majority of companies out there, but there’s still a segment running Linux that hasn’t gotten any love whatsoever. Luckily, Spanish developer GMV has been working with Vodafone to bring a product called atlas to Linux-toting enterprise, enabling workers to sync up their e-mail and view attachments on BlackBerry with the best of ‘em. It’s still in testing phases, but it sounds like they’re making good progress and should have something for the market in the near future. Check out GMV’s brochure for more information on atlas.
Features include:
- Sending and receiving emails in the handheld smartphone.
- Replying to incoming mail and forwarding received emails.
- Automatic synchronization of the state of messages in the user’s mailbox (messages read, answered, deleted, etc.) for all user selected folders.
- Filtering incoming emails by keywords or message fields (from, to, Cc., etc.).
- Displaying attached files on the handheld smartphone in the usual document formats supported by the
BlackBerry® smartphones:
- Microsoft Word®
- Microsoft Excel®
- Microsoft PowerPoint®
- Corel®’s WordPerfect®
- Adobe®’s PDF
- ASCII Documents
- HTML attachments
- (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG y TIFF) images
- All these types of files in zip format
- Furthermore, atlas GMV® allows the display of attached
- OpenOffice.org files. atlas GMV® also provides all PIM objects handling facilities supported by the BlackBerry® solution, including:
- Manage and schedule appointments from the smartphone.
- Access contact information from the address book.
- Add, edit and delete tasks.
- Compose, edit and delete notes.
[via miblackberry]
About The Author
Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
