Last week I met with an guy from OpenText, which is now the largest Canadian technology company, just surpassing RIM this year in market share. He was using blackberry and he told me blackberry is still their first choice recommended by his company but lots of his colleagues have switched to iPhone or Android this year. He said it can hardly be imagined several year ago when all the employees of OpenText are enjoying Blackberry shipped from their Canadian neighbor. 

It is true that RIM is in its downside. This week RIM(Research In Motion) reports its third quarter fiscal 2012 results. Compared to Q2, the number is up 24% but is down 6% from same quarter last year. RIM's share drops to its lowest level in recent seven years.

Some blames arise pointing out the failure of playbook which distract RIM's focus on Blackberry phones. From my point of view, playbook is still in the team of potentially threating iPad.

It is easy to see that Playbook has much in common with iPad, same screen resolution, sandboxing operating system and app store. Because of these thing, Playbook is more secure and reliable to deploy into enterprise environment, not to say RIM has its own huge enterprise users. Some of my customers always complain about the different versions of Android devices and hardly any code can cater different screen resolutions. Open source makes community thriving but will be a disaster to enterprises. Same problems may happen to meego, and webos which is announced to be open-source by HP.

I think and I guess that is why SAP is still favoring Blackberry or Playbook. SAP has the most mobility demos running on iOS and Blackberry. Recently several additional Playbook demos are released internally focusing on different industry scenarios. I happen to have time installing the Playbook simulator and run out some screenshots for your digest. Playbook may not be ready now but is deserved to get visionary attentions.