BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express

[DonCube]

Hey guys,

two questions. First, if you have a Blackberry you normally need a Blackberry Option. Do I really need this option if i have a rootserver, where BESX is running? If I understand it right the BB-Option is nothing but a BES at my provider.

Second, i know BESX can only be downloaded for Windows servers. Is it not possible to get it running on a Linux Debian Server? Has anyone done it? Would be awesome.

I know there a different thrid party products like zimbra, funambol and other. Can I use them to run on the Linux system and let them do what the BES normally will do?

The point is I would like to use my own rootserver to provide functionality of the BESX and to have full funcionality without BB-Option.

Hoping for some good answers....Thx

PS: I read:

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Professional-Software/Linux-Open-source-options-fo...

But officially no means that somewhere someone did something somehow..... ;-) if you understand..... :-D

[knottyrope]

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DonCube wrote:

Hey guys,

two questions. First, if you have a Blackberry you normally need a Blackberry Option. Do I really need this option if i have a rootserver, where BESX is running? If I understand it right the BB-Option is nothing but a BES at my provider.

Second, i know BESX can only be downloaded for Windows servers. Is it not possible to get it running on a Linux Debian Server? Has anyone done it? Would be awesome.

I know there a different thrid party products like zimbra, funambol and other. Can I use them to run on the Linux system and let them do what the BES normally will do?

The point is I would like to use my own rootserver to provide functionality of the BESX and to have full funcionality without BB-Option.

Hoping for some good answers....Thx

PS: I read:

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Professional-Software/Linux-Open-source-options-fo...

But officially no means that somewhere someone did something somehow..... ;-) if you understand..... :-D

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Blackberry Enterprise Server compatibility chart
http://us.blackberry.com/support/software/server_compatibility.jsp#tab_tab_compatibility

You need a BlackBerry dataplan from your carrier to use BES axpress 5. No way around it.

[DonCube]

Yeah i know i need a dataplan. I have one but only the standard plan you have for every mobile internet device. So it should work with this or has it to be " blackberry special".

To get it running i can try to run the BES on a VM on the debian system. Do you think it will work? Or has anyone done something similar.

[knottyrope]

you need a BlacBerry Dataplan, a generic on will not work.

A VM might work but I have never tried it.