smart move RIM!!

GREAT move for RIM

makes plenty ol sense being as that suite is prob the best feature of my BB after email..

I guess that means that the upcoming Blackberry models will come preloaded with support for more work based documents and files. A smart move by RIM to keep hold of their business consumers

This should be good news for all three parties: RIM, Docs To Go and the consumer. I love D2G.

Makes sense.

ok, so if RIM put this on the tablet, then heres my (humble) idea.
pad and pc both on same wifi network, word on pc has a extension patch on it for dataviz, and pad has a `send to desktop` option, and desktop has the `send to pad` option. that would be cool (like the throw through window idea that bumptop were working on before google bought them)

Very good news! This makes good business sense to me and I, for one, am glad for the acquisition.

Very good move by RIM. As a daily user of Docs2Go I know it can be very helpful if they offer future support for all consumers. BES seems like it will be an obvious use of it from a business standpoint.

Awesome acquisition RIM! Now can we get Docs2Go Desktop with 3G and wifi sync?

Could this be the reason device updates are as they are now?
I mean, is RIM working on something CRAZY big for a near future, so they are buyig up all the forepower they need and because of that, devices are just being pushed out with small add-ons, while the real device updates are being prepared?

Now tell me SugarSync is next in the "let's buy all software" queue!

Next podcast is gonna be the best...

I really like the D2G Premium I'm using and share documents between my desktop, laptop, iPad and Blackberry. Use it a lot on the iPad so hope they don't stop making the iPad version.

This reminded me that I need to email them for my code. They require two codes; registration and activation and I have two codes, but my reg code goes with my old phone and the activation code goes with the new one. I think the registration code for the new phone was in my VZW email, but I deleted it...ugh! It's all so complicated and I'm so confused...lol!

Anyway, this looks like a win for RIM and maybe those of us who can't keep track of all our codes!

This was an excellent strategic move. I think there is a lot of intellectual capital in the Docs to Go InTact Technology. Nobody else comes close to its efficiency. Between RIM BIS, BES and InTact, it will be hard to match for business use.

meh

I guess it was good for them but I'll stick to my eoffice unless they add a slew of features to docs to go that eoffice has now then i might give it a whirl again.

Yea good move RIM

HOLY CRAP! This is the first time in a long time that I have read comments regarding RIM and there business that know one has said anything mean or bad about!!!!!! (yet)

Way to go. Good move RIM you have Crackberry.com users agreeing with you so you did something right!

ROFL, thank you RIM!

Sorry for the dbl BB post

i hope they acquire handheld designing skills from some company

I have tried many apps for the ms suite on the BB and nothing beats docs to go so will we start seeing it as a integration or a free bee? well either paid or not its a pleasure to have something that truly works on the blackberry that gets the job done.

As a former Palm user DataViz was one of my must have apps. Glad to see RIM acquire this company.

I occasionally get updates for my software (that I originally paid handsomely for). I just hope that future updates will still be available for a reasonable (what DataViz charged) price. We shall see.

That's very very good move RIM. We love u RIM you'r the BEST. FREE pizzzzzzzz. Hahaha

I think this is a good one! Docs to Go full version might be standard on BB's soon!

happens to my retail copy then. :(

I use it daily and it's very good. I'm surprised they didn't do it earlier.

free premium docs to go and finally RIM will be able to read pdf files off of our memory card.

It would be great free premium documents to go... Or at least that it were cheaper. I was going to buy it, but now i don´t know what to do... I'll wait some time and see what happens.

While I found it okay on my old Palms as a basic doc viewer, the limitations of the screen, the software and the need to sync with a 'real' computer firmly kept it in its place as companion software rather than a standalone product capable of true word processing. Upgrading to a more fully-featured suite was desperately expensive for what you got.

On my 8520, I found these shortcomings still there - emphasized perhaps by its even smaller screen. I have since uninstalled Docs2Go completely from my BB.

If RIM has indeed acquired the product, here's hoping that they make the product a better fit on their devices and offer better functionality.

I just hope they don't discontinue Docs2Go for other platforms like iPhone, Android etc. 'coz that would just suck...

Wow. A power move by RIM. I just hope that all DataViz people will be treated with great care and respect. Unlike all other competitors, DataViz products work. Plus, when I would call DataViz with my piddly problems, check it out: an actual PERSON would help me !

As a multiple smart phone user (a Tour and a Droid X) I have Docs To Go (paid version) on both, as well the paid version on my iPod Touch. This purchase concerns me as I worry that with future updates to say the Android OS, or Apples iOS I could very well be without 2/3 of the functionality I have paid GOOD money for. You hear all the time about an upgrade messing with an apps functionality and you have to wait on the developer to release a patch or update. IF, a big if since neither company has released any information about those other platforms, they do stop development for other platforms what will my recourse be? I paid for the app on multiple platforms with the understanding that it would continue to work... hmmmm.

The one essential app for me on my many past Palm devices was Documents to Go. Now, after email,BBM and SMS. Doc2Go is my most-used application. It is the one application that makes my BB my portable laptop/office. I think I made the right choice in smartphones. Docs2Go and BBM alone will keep me a loyal BlackBerry user.

I think the reason the WebOS version was dropped is because that platform isn't going anywhere. Face it, it's a iphone, Android world when it comes to apps with BB in third. Even with RIM's ownership, if there is money to be made in Android and iphone version, they will be made.

Very smart move.

Probably, the best news I have heard from RIM in two years. Right up there with the WebKit browser. But is it enough? I use the view only versions and wish I had more functionality but I'm too cheap to buy the upgrade. If it was free with a BB device it would make BB devices more appealing.

Can't wait to see if RIM continues to support other os such as iPhone and Android or not. No matter what, I'm just as happy as the other posters. Love D2G!

This has been my biggest complaint about Blackberry. Having to pay for a full office suite is absolutely an insult after I have purchased one of these. Maybe this means that RIM will now offer it in full from the start.

Is Docs2Go relevant today with online office apps like Google Docs and MS office 2010?

Great move, hopefully RIM take advantage of this productivity suite and cement their name as the leading business phone whilst also going full throttle (please?) at the consumer market!

It'll be silly for them to cut back on other devices since it'll be a good proposition for them to bring users over to the BB side whilst also providing a revenue source from major platforms.

Making this as a free suite for Blackberry users and integrating it fully into blackberry platform would be a godsend!

Next stop, include this with their touch screen tablet and it'll be viewed as an actual productivity companion for the smartphone, whilst also considering the multimedia/ high end users (ebook users, video, casual gaming). You'll have an tablet device(s) that actually be worth buying!

Good buy and one that'll compete well with Microsoft who plan to launch their rebooted smartphone Operating system before the end of the year (not that I need to tell you that they once had a fair chunk of smartphone business and one that creates the ever popular desktop office suit). That launch being the windows phone 7 platform which they will be subsidizing 3rd party developers on productivity and entertainment apps/tools whilst maintaining a strong focus on consumers and hedging its bets on cloud storage/sharing e.g http://bit.ly/9XF6AV (something I'd like to see RIM have a crack at! Never leave home/work without a document/file ever again is a mantra something RIM could pull off)

and 50 million is nothing when you consider how much MICOSOFT is going to spend on the launch of WP7.. 50-100 million? no make that 1 billion dollars and more over the course of the next year. there's a lot of catching up to do and something RIM can't afford to become complacent.
The more i hear about the wp7 the more im sceptical about it esp with the social services that integrates everywhere on the phone but it'll hit the floor running (esp now since they are building upon an eco-system that has worked for apple) and thats something to keep a watchful eye over, more so than apple and google combined over the course of the next 2 years or so.

DocsTOGo is a useless program! Who sits on their BB or smartphone and edits docs,pdf, PPT, or excel programs? Nobody! Save your money! RIM should have saved thier money and put in R & D in thier smart phones. You can attach any to an email. Doc to go was a decent concept for limited smartphone like Palms. RIM has no corner on the smartphones market. Iphone is spreading to the Verizon and AT&T markets and Andriod is with sprint. RIM needs to get the Lead out and their A##. RIM needs to crush the IPhone and Andriod! This huge waste of money! Purchasing Palm would have been a better move.