14 DAY TRIAL // According to the latest news on the Web, Motorola is on its way to sell its mobile email subsidiary, Good Technology, to rival supplier Visto. For the time being, the mobile phone maker did not unveil any details regarding the value of the transaction. Many of you might already know that Motorola acquired Good Technology back in November 2006 from its private owners.
Visto is known to have tight relationships with a wide range of mobile phone operators across Europe, North America, and Asia. At the same time, Good Technology's extensive relationships with U.S. mobile carriers allowed it to have implementations with thousands of enterprises, among which many of the Fortune 500, as well as a large number of the Fortune 50 ones can be counted.
“This transaction marks another important milestone in Visto’s emergence as a worldwide leader for mobile access to applications and content, especially messaging and collaboration data. Good’s robust enterprise and government solution will complement Visto’s strong operator presence in business and consumer markets,” said Brian A. Bogosian, CEO of Visto. “As a result of this transaction, Visto will now provide customers in over 100 countries an open, robust and secure mobile experience for enterprise customers, on over 400 different mobile devices.”
According to Gene Delaney, president, Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Motorola, Inc., the mobile phone maker considers this transaction to be “in the best interest of our customers, employees and shareholders.” At the same time, he stated that Motorola considers that Visto’s acquisition of Good will offer the mobile phone maker the opportunity to concentrate “on providing best-in-class business-critical applications, secure management platforms and mobility services,” which are meant to enable individual users to access the right information when they need it, while also being able to streamline business processes and improve the results of their work.