Here is one who has installed BES 5.0

http://www.formortals.com/blackberry-ent...

A quote: "... There’s more pain after you’ve completed the whole installation ... "

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http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/pre...

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/pre...

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/pre...

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/pre...

I love all the detailed notes that come with these links.

The alternative is not to do the upgrade ... as apparently so many enterprise Windows users have chosen not to upgrade to Vista but rather seem more inclined with Windows 7.0. I doubt if RIMM wants to go back to the drawing board on BES 5.0 and will move hard to encourage users to upgrade. They are not MSFT with probably the greatest monopoly in history...they have Apple/Motororla-Google/Msft hard on their tail. One can only imagine the $$$ and resources they have invested in BES 5.0.

1. Steel Cloud SW Mobile uniquely within RIM's BlackBerry booth at World Wide Hosting Convention.
2. 100 BlackBerry Hosters are reportedly geared to buy SW Mobile
3. Steel Cloud now in the highest tier status BlackBerry Alliance partner - Elite. Where are the sales that they deserve this????
3. Ingram Micro - world wide distributer agreement
4. Believe to be in negotiations with worldwide DELL for add on marketing agreement.

Perhaps once all the channels are ready as in filled with product ... RIM itself with start pushing more on SW Mobile as a quick easy economical way to install BES 5.0. Remember it costs them virtually nothing to bring SCLD closer ... they have virutally zero monies invested in SCLD's SW Mobile. Closer link to SCLD and bingo BES 5.0 upgrade problem is likely history.

...it seems that SW Mobile IS indeed a viable/cost effective/intuitive answer .... having SCLD in the RIM / BlackBerry booth at the Hosting Convention is a great start ... we need to see more and more RIM/SCLD association and some real buzz going on with SW Mobile ... so far I have detected virtually no buzz ... reading the tea leaves and knowing SW FedMobile BES 5.0 should be around the corner ... I have been accumulating at these levels ... things seem to be lining up ... once there the SP is not going to look back ... getting there ... that is the rub ... conversely if I don't read/see/detect more buzz in the months ahead I will slowly fade away.

Anyone wish to talk about the upcoming secondary?