RE: Blackberry, BES, Chargebacks?

["Rasim Duric" <rduric@uoguelph.ca>]

We are using BES/ZCB and have around 50 users (the president and other VIPs) 
on two servers. Yes, our university offers it for free since ZCB is still in 
beta and we have been running this service as a pilot project.

Once the ZCB GA is released, hopefully at the end of June, we plan to 
increase a number of users and some minimal charges might apply just to 
recover the cost that RIM is charging us for the licenses and support.


Rasim Duric
Network Analyst (CCS)
University of Guelph
Guelph, N1G 2W1, ON
519-824-4120x53146
rduric@uoguelph.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Mencel [mailto:MR-Mencel@wiu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:31 PM
To: zimbra-hied-admins
Subject: Blackberry, BES, Chargebacks?

Hi group,

We're just curious if anyone else on the list is using BES/ZCB.  If so does 
your university offer it for free to users or do you do some sort of 
chargeback method?  If you do chargeback, then what calculations did you use 
to generate the number to charge for Blackberry/BES usage?

We currently don't do any chargebacks for anything but we're considering it. 
We don't get extra funding for providing these services and more users are 
asking for it than we want to provide for free.

Thanks,
Matt Mencel
Western Illinois University