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CIO magazine recounts a Forrester Research report from last week on “The iPhone is Not Meant for Enterprises,” a $280 piece of critical business intelligence that tells IT departments something they a) wanted to compose out and b) already knew: the iPhone is not a Blackberry (quel suprise!). Without key features such as remote kill, goods encryption, and full Exchange support, Forrester says the iPhone is DOA in BigCo environments; despite that, IT folk need a strategy for handling the iPhones that form their touchable way in the revolving doors.

Nobody expects IT to embrace the iPhone with both arms,

but the tale of the numbers suggests that the warmth of the welcome may be irrelevant: the iPhone is here in a big way. With sales goods suggesting that the iPhone has passed Windows Mobile in share, vendors like Visto promising full Exchange integration, and an SDK around the corner for blessed development, corporate technologists may have to settle for a policy of benign discontent as the shiny pretty things invade.

[via Macworld]

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Original post by Michael Rose