Research In Motion is demonstrating support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server?for Novell GroupWise at the Novell BrainShare Europe conference.

"BlackBerry has become an industry standard platform for wireless enterprise data and we are pleased to be expanding the popular BlackBerry experience to Novell GroupWise customers," said Jim Balsillie, Chairman and Co-CEO at Research In Motion. "For GroupWise customers, especially in government, legal and healthcare sectors where Novell has such a strong presence, BlackBerry will provide IT departments with a secure, reliable and easy to manage wireless platform and end users with increased mobility and productivity."

"We continue to work closely with RIM to tightly integrate the BlackBerry wireless platform with Novell GroupWise to deliver a compelling wireless solution for our global customers," said Alan Nugent, chief technical officer at Novell. "BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise will offer our customers a robust wireless platform to manage all of their wireless needs."

BlackBerry is an award-winning wireless platform that helps users stay connected to people and information. BlackBerry integrates hardware, software and service, providing an end-to-end wireless solution. BlackBerry Enterprise Server enables secure, push-based, wireless access to email and other corporate data.

The Mobile Data Service feature of BlackBerry Enterprise Server is uniquely designed to provide ISVs and in-house corporate developers with an environment that supports corporate data access and interaction capabilities beyond email. With BlackBerry Mobile Data Service, Novell GroupWise customers will be able to leverage the BlackBerry architecture and security model to deploy reliable, secure, end-to-end applications without any additional infrastructure to learn or support. BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise will offer enhanced manageability and additional security features through full support of AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and content protection on the handheld with local data encryption.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise is expected to be commercially available later this year.