When Does OMA Really Mean OMA?
Oh…that’s an easy one.
When it means OMA, of course!
Here’s the dealio…
A fellow SBS MVP, as in the M from the Magical M & Ms…
Whoa…waitaminute.
Was she M?
Or was she…M?
Anyway, Marina Roos (no relation to yours truly, despite the similar sounding last name) pinged me today on IM to inquire how to configure a certain mobile device to work with Small Business Server 2003.
Thing is…the phone is a Nokia 6300 device. Which runs its own OS. Something called series 40. Which sounds like a top-secret government project involving the breeding of an alien-human hybrid, if you ask me.
And the 6300 also has…a Java-based browser.
Blech.
That’s an insta-deal-killer for me, no matter what the device.
Marina pointed out that the specs for the 6300, under Connectivity, list as a feature…
Full OMA Client provisioning
So I told her that it won’t do what her customer wants because it doesn’t support Full OMA Client provisioning…it supports Full OMA Client Provisioning!
What’s so hard to understand about that, after all?
As in…
It doesn’t support Full Outlook Mobile Access Client provisioning…it supports Full Open Mobile Alliance Client provisioning
In a nutshell, Full OMA Client provisioning is the ability to control which features on a device are enabled or not using specially crafted XML files that can be sent OTA. As in, Over The Air.
If you want a full-on explanation, have yourself a ball checking out the stuff on the following page:
http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/cp_v1_1.htm
And to help keep anyone from falling prey to that kind of mixup in the future…
But this was the shock of all shocks!
Altho she is a very influential MVP, who remotely assists people all over the world with SBS…
Marina doesn’t use a mobile device. Not at all.
I promised I wouldn’t stone her for digital heresy.
And other parts of our discussion about that, including the value prop of Windows Mobile, totally reaffirmed my assertion that…
Windows Mobile should, by all rights, be kicking the ass of all its competitors, without even breaking a sweat! But it isn’t, and perhaps never will.
The reason(s) WM isn’t?
Maybe I’ll get a chance to talk about that at a conference someday.
|| posted by chris under business, clueless, hardware, mobility, thumbs down || comments (1) || ||
LOL @ top-secret government project. I work for a company testing software (guess who for…). We have 2 divisions, S60 and ODT and I’ve said the same thing about the top-secret government project thing to my colleagues. Especially since ODT stands for On Demand Team and I decided to refer to S60 as SD6, which nobody gets
(google it).
comment by Not Sure — September 4, 2009 @ 9:47 am