Postby florian » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:48 pm
Well, all I can say is that running a BES or BPS is a relatively minor effort and with the BPS, even cost is very manageable. I saw the actual setup for the first time when we engaged in the integration project, and it's actually really a good app to operate. It's relatively low on resources and happily runs in a VM, everything pretty much works as designed if you follow the instructions, admin-tools are slightly awkward at times, but reasonable and finally, and best of all, the thing uses outbound communication into the BES infrastructure all along, so a) it does not need to have a public IP address and b) it does not need any inbound holes drilled into your firewall.
So - given the integration product is in Beta and given I'm not sure whether and when any of our hosting partners starts offering such a partial service - I would actually recommend that you get going with this yourself.
Just my 0,02 - I don't think you'll regret it too much.
Florian.
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