What many IT admins may have once thought impossible has happened -- the iPhone is now second place in terms of security behind only the BlackBerry
The release of iOS 4, the latest iPhone software that came out in June, marked a dramatic shift in the enterprise smartphone market. With that update, many CIOs grudgingly admitted that the iPhone had became "good enough" to meet the most basic security requirements that most enterprises need, said Tim Weingarten, CEO of Visage Mobile.
Visage Mobile's software manages 100,000 devices from U.S. corporations of every size. Among those devices, BlackBerrys still outnumber iPhones and Android phones 10 to one, he said.
Research In Motion currently has 51.2 percent market share in the enterprise, according to recent research from comScore. Apple follows with 22.7 percent and Android comes in third with 12.1 percent market share. Microsoft trails at 8.8 percent, comScore found.
In the wider market, RIM's share of the U.S. smartphone market dropped from 39.3 percent in July 2010 to 35.8 percent in October 2010, ComScore said.
The smartphone mix in an enterprise often depends on who actually buys the phones. Corporations that decide to standardize on a platform and issue phones to workers tend to go with BlackBerry, said Tony Kueh, senior director of enterprise mobility management for Sybase.
source: infoworld.com/
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