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Dell Ditches RIM: BlackBerry's Bad Year Just Got Worse

05.11.2010
Dell dumped RIM's BlackBerry as its business smartphone and announced that it would be supplying 25,000 of its employees with the Windows 7-powered . The move is yet more gloom for RIM that has already been having a stinker of a bad year.

"Clearly in this decision we are competing with RIM, because we're kicking them out," Dell's CFO, Brian Gladden, said in .

Dell switches to the Venue Pro next week when the phone is . The move will reportedly save the company about 25 percent in mobile communication costs, mostly because it'll be independent of RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise servers.

BlackBerry Blues

A BlackBerry sales rep told me that to give Enterprise access to 25,000 employees would be worth roughly $1.2 million.

RIM hasn't had great luck this year. Last month in smartphone market share and its latest addition to the BlackBerry line -- the Torch 9800 -- was . And while , the tablet's lack of apps might mean a less-than-spectacular adoption rate.