RIM BES 4.1 SP5 for GroupWise

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Posted by Jay Parker (NTS) in the NGW List :

I pinged my contacts at RIM and got the following info.

During the last GWAVA one of the presenters from RIM communicated that RIM is targeting SP5 for mid-year. It will include HTML and email rendering support along with some additional features. RIM is targeting feature parity with other platforms around the same time.

In email my RIM contact also mentioned that SP5 for the other platforms has not yet officially shipped. So now that BES for GroupWise 4.1.4 has shipped, all platforms are at the same SP level (at least for a little while). This seems to be confirmed by the link <…> provided from RIM which says that SP5 is “Coming Soon”.

I agree that it’s not good that BES SPs for GroupWise ship behind the Exchange SPs. In RIM’s defense I’ll state that we’re pushing them very hard to move their architecture away from the client API to SOAP. And as they make incremental steps to this effect with each release it can introduce bugs which cause delays.

We work very close with their dev team. From my interactions with that team and other contacts at RIM, I’m convinced they have a very talented and committed team working on GroupWise. I think you’ll see improvement in quality with each release as well as Exchange SP vs. GroupWise SP availability window shorten.