You're all bonkers. It's a phone. Get a bloody grip.

And I just read that it doesn't encrypt content locally. If that's true, then this isn't ready for business.

Maybe small businesses will take the risk, due to either naivety or stupidity. But large businesses and governments will not go for a device that doesn't encrypt content locally.

That link points at a Gartner report that I can't read, but seems to have the wisest position:
    Wait and see what it's like when it's released, then take a view.

Even if it does encrypt content locally - and we won't know for certain until the thing ships and people get to take it apart - the switch from Domino to an Exchange infrastructure means higher costs.

For starters, the push mail system on Exchange runs through IIS, and that means you'll need at least quarterly penetration tests until you've got in-house IIS knowledge and experience (and perhaps some IDS software on the box?).

Then you've got training (IT support and users), migration costs, hardware costs, and so forth. It all mounts up. Plus you lose some small bits of functionality (whilst gaining others), so overall it's just disruption for disruption's sake.

As far as I'm concerned, the iPhone is a golden opportunity. Because within a year, IBM will have mail on the thing anyway. But idiots that rush towards it blindly will find out just how expensive a migration can be. The hard way.

And for what?

A phone.

Sheesh.

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