RIM's Blackberry is highlighted in a discussion of Intellisync's optimism over the mobile middleware market. Intellisync thinks it can garner a few pennies from each user who checks e-mail or gains access to enterprise applications from a mobile device. Microsoft, RIM, Good Technology, Visto, and Seven Networks are also on the bandwagon. Gartner says there are 2 million users of mobile e-mail retrieval technology, 520,000 users of Intellisync's technology, 400,000 Good Technology users, and 15,000 users of Microsoft's e-mail retrieval software. The companies software permits users to connect to corporate servers and to use tools and documents on the servers to work from any location. The mobile middleware works with advanced wireless devices, including the Palm Treo 650, RIM Blackberry, mobile phones from Verizon and other carriers, and mobile operating systems (OSs) such as Microsoft Mobile 5.0 or Symbian. Only 4 million of the 1.3 billion mobile phones in use are data-enabled for e-mail and productivity application retrieval and use from an office server. Intellisync forecasts that by 2008 the number of data-ready devices will have risen to 40 million. Among topics covered are Intellisync's business overhaul and acquisitions, other company consolidations, and the likelihood that IBM, Computer Associates International (CA), Oracle, RIM, and Microsoft will also become acquirers. Microsoft has inked a deal with Palm that puts Microsoft's mobile OS on Palm's devices, but other large mobile device makers, says an analyst, including Nokia, Samsung group, and Sony, are likely to continue using Symbian.