December 06, 2007 (Computerworld) — The iPhone has won over the hearts and minds of many consumers and professionals, and now there is growing interest in whether IT shops at businesses and other large organizations should start supporting them. The thinking in the past by many analysts was that no company would support the iPhone since the device doesn’t offer push e-mail, disk or file encryption, much less third-party applications. But one analyst at Forrester Research Inc.
in Cambridge, Mass., said in a blog this week that Forrester has recently received a “surprising volume” of inquiries from its large business clients asking whether they should add the iPhone to an internal list of mobile devices that the IT staff will support. “Forrester strongly believes that the first generation of the iPhone is not an enterprise-class mobile device,” wrote analyst Benjamin Gray.
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