Motorola - The real RIM/Blackberry killer ?

News just in this evening about Motorola’s buy-out of Good Technology Inc. Good has been honing its enterprise product featuring push based email for some time now and has grown its enterprise base to around 10000+ companies which clearly puts it in the BlackBerry competitor mode.

By buying Good Technology, Motorola will be able to add e- mail
functions to more devices and expand beyond the consumer market. The
company started selling the Q phone in June in its first challenge to
the BlackBerry and now plans products that directly target businesses. [link]

I have used Good’s software on a Treo 650 and I must say the ease of deployment, upgrade and ofcourse push based technology makes it ideal for enterprise use. I am not sure how this would fare with the non-enterprise market though - but the same questions linger for RIM.

All in all, this acquisition in my mind was absolutely critical if Motorola were to make any kind of headway into value added services and taking their next generation phones to the enterprise world - this also gives them the chance to enter the ring with the perennial bully in this space - RIM.

Says one analyst -
“Motorola is making a concerted effort to go after RIM,” said Lawrence Harris, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. in New York. “This acquisition gives them credibility.”

Where does this leave Nokia? - Playing catchup or do they have something up their sleeve?

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