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U.K. firm Darbys Dumps BlackBerry
TechWorld reports that 150-lawyer U.K. firm Darbys has begun to sour on the BlackBerry device's prospects. The report says that the law firm has fears for RIM's future and has started phasing out BlackBerrys with 20 lawyers who will move over to HP handhelds using Good Technology's software. Darbys, the report says, plans to move another 40 lawyers off BlackBerrys in the next few months.
TechWorld gets a hold of the Darbys IT guy, who provides a good business answer:
"We don't know yet what the outcome (of the court case) will be," said IT chief Mike Warriner. "But any organisation facing a legal case like this is spending resources which can't be devoted to its customers or its product," he added.
It raises a valid point, workaround or not, as to whether RIM can devote the necessary resources and stay focused on its product and users while the legal saga continues.
Meanwhile, all of this is perhaps of little concern to Future Lawyer, where Rick has been looking at next-generation Treos, and others who might be considering clunkier old-school technologies.
Posted by ScottMartin on February 10, 2006 at 03:39 PM | Permalink
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