RIM is also offering a 60 day free trial and the BlackBerry Resource Center already has a dedicated BES 5.0 Portal up and running. Some of the most significant new features in version 5.0 are manageability, reliability and high availability.

Whats New:

• Follow-up flag on email messages
• Forward calendar entries
• Manage personal folders
• View and manage personal contact subfolders
• View and use contacts in public folders
• Attachment support for the .wma file format
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
• Support for Windows Server 2008
• BlackBerry Administration Service
• BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server high availability
• High availability for a distributed environment
• Support for database mirroring
• Enrolling certificates over the wireless network
• New method for installing and managing the BlackBerry Device Software and BlackBerry Java Applications
• BlackBerry MDS Application Console
• Support for new BlackBerry Browser Applications
• New IT policy rules

Blackberry Enterprise Server can be downloaded from RIM.