[145585] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo)
Wed Oct 12 14:10:04 2011
In-Reply-To: <B55743CF-90C6-4BFC-AFBB-2F0A21908901@hopcount.ca>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:09:54 -0200
From: Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3011@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: carlos@lacnic.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've always believed that RIM's decision to implement email and other
services in this way was a very poor choice that at some point would
blow up in their faces. My evil half would say that is was a
marketer's rather than an engineer's decision.
It's one thing when you are basically the only game in town (as RIM
was a few years ago), now it's a completely different scenario.
RIM already faces a complicated playground. More high-profile
incidents like this one and suddenly people start losing confidence in
the service... one thing leads to another... then suddenly you're
target for acquisition by a huge corporation. Then things look up
again but exactly one year later that huge corporation buries
everything you did and you're a page in a history book :-)
Good luck to them,
Carlos
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote:
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>> Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-)
>
> The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of processing intelligence in the core. Messaging services that use the core as a simple transport and shift the processing intelligence to the edge have different, less-dramatic failure modes.
>
> No news, here. http://isen.com/stupid.html
>
>
> Joe
>
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