The list of features that Apple describes as important to enterprise end users includes "push-based" e-mail, calendar info and contact management; additional support for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) including Cisco IPsec; and two-factor authentication, certificates and identities.

"Enterprise-class" Wi-Fi with WPA2/802.1x support and tools to enforce security policies were also mentioned. Schiller indicated that IT managers are also looking to help deploy iPhones, set them up automatically, and, perhaps most importantly, wipe the devices when necessary.

"That's a long list of important features," said Schiller. "They say if we just did these things, it would really help adoption in the enterprise. And we're doing all of these things in the next release of the iPhone software."

Removing risk of service downtime

"We have licensed the ActiveSync protocol [from Microsoft]," said Schiller. This will enable Apple to build support for Microsoft Exchange directly into the iPhone -- a huge request from iPhone users, he said.



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