Five Reasons Why the Amazon Kindle Fire Will Light Up Enterprises | ZDNet
Summary
In an IBM-sponsored survey of 4,000 IT pros worldwide released last week, 70% said they plan to deploy apps for Android devices, versus 49% for iPhone and iPad, 35% for Windows 7, and 25% for BlackBerry. On a more anecdotal level, I know two CIOs who have already started testing the Kindle Fire for internal use: SAPs Oliver Bussmann and Sybases Jim Swartz. The reason is simple: consumer tablets are so inexpensive that they are the enterprise IT equivalent of a "disposable razor," according to Yankee Group analyst Eugene Signorini. So the perverse upside of the Kindle Fires 8 GB of storage and 512 MB of RAM - half of what the BlackBerry PlayBook has - means less data stored (and potentially lost), and fewer movies and games to be watched and played by procrastinating employees. Similarly, the Kindle Fires lack of 3G/4G connectivity means one less headache for IT administrators worried about exorbitant data roaming charges from salesguys streaming movies in their overseas hotel room.
