[Bb-Outage] RIM Outage

[John]

Greetings,

As I'm sure everyone knows already, RIM is suffering from a massive outage which seems to be affecting everyone.

This is what I've seen so far.

The RIM Company, which stands for Research In Motion, developed blackberry technology and said its infrastructure failed around 8 p.m. Tuesday and has been down ever since.

E-mails are not being pushed to portable blackberry devices. 

Officials with RIM said they are trying to reset the system and told NewsChannel4 that they are concerned that the backlog of data, which will rush through when it comes back on line, could cause a bigger problem.

When the error is corrected, RIM officials said a message would be sent in stages so the system does not crash.

Officials said the problem would carry into the morning.

For the moment, RIM officials recommend all who depend on their blackberry as a major way of communication should make some back-up plans.


If anyone else has anything to post about this, please let the rest of the list know. This is one reason why the list was setup to notify others about the issue when it happens but since it's a rare thing and the list is so new yet, word is still getting out to everyone.

Thank You

John