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Unknown's avatar Pete 5:26 am on July 28, 2013
Tags: Airwatch, Good,   

The Good lawsuit

 

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Sometimes I rant about how much I hate Airwatch, they hire kids that are 21 or 22 years old, they under pay their employees, they put features in the product just to check something off for the Gartner report. ( I still feel that way sometimes)  However, this is a really weak lawsuit.  I dislike when technology companies attempt to patten an idea.  That is basically what Good is trying to do here. 

Nowhere in any of Airwatche’s code will you find anything, that even remotely resembles Good code.  Good is suing over the belief that Airwatch (and Mobile Iron for that matter) stole the idea from them (and did it better then they did).  This is such a ridiculous concept in technology and all it does is hurt innovation.  I don’t care if Good thought up this MDM game 10 years ago, Androids and iPhones didn’t even exist back then. There is no argument for attempting to say that your patten, that applied to some old WinMO devices and Symbian devices, is valid today in the technology diverse systems that we are working in.  Just think about this for a second, if this nonsensical patten crap existed 100 years ago, people would of been afraid to invent anything.

Unknown's avatar Pete 7:22 pm on April 11, 2013
Tags: Airwatch, Citrix, , , zenprise   

Citrix and Zenprise

I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to the team over at Zenprise a couple of times at BlackBerry world (formerly WES) a few years ago, and I was very impressed with their product. Recently, Citrix bought Zenprise.  The obvious reason that Citrix is doing this is to get into the MDM game, in technology cash is king usually and Citrix just decided it wants to become a player.  I am curious as to why they didn’t buy MobileIron or Airwatch, maybe the asking price was too much.  I’ve always though Zenprise was feature rich, but behind the big two.  We’ll have to wait to see how this plays out.  I think one of the reasons that the MDM market is going to become saturated very quickly, is because it is incredibility painful to move off an MDM solution. Think about it for a moment, let’s say your doing an email migration from Domino to Exchange, you at least have control over the software on the computer’s your moving to. In MDM, you have to remove applications from sometimes several hundred devices, re-enroll Iphones, Androids and reconfigure connections to the BlackBerry servers.  Never mind the hundreds of hours it takes to work with all your users.  The lesson here, Be very sure you choose the correct MDM vendor