Mobile Products Due in June

Three products just released to manufacturing will give users access to corporate applications from wireless phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). These products will improve traveling workers’ access to their office e-mail and schedules when using mobile devices. However, companies will have to carefully consider how to integrate these products into their e-mail and directory infrastructure, and they face compatibility issues with mobile devices and wireless carriers.

Servers Provide Wireless Portal to Intranet

At the core of Microsoft’s mobile technology are two server products that ship in the same package but are licensed separately:

• Mobile Information Server Enterprise Edition (previously code-named Airstream), which enables applications running on a corporate intranet to push messages to mobile users, and enables mobile users to log in to the intranet and access applications there by browsing.
• Outlook Mobile Access, a set of components for Mobile Information Server that