If your customers want the complete BlackBerry Enterprise Server experience but are reluctant to sign up for the full commitment, a solution might be to point them at Cortado’s hosted BES offering.

It provides the full push email and real-time synchronisation of contacts, appointments, tasks, and memos for 19.98 euro per month, can be set up online at www.cortado.com/ blackberry (where there’s a free 30-day trial), and requires no other involvement from the user.

This hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server deal also includes the Cortado Business Plus Exchange Email package with a 2GB mailbox, virus protection and a spam filter. Users are also able to continue using their existing email address.