By licensing BES10 APIs, BlackBerry retreats to move forward

For months, BlackBerry has been touting its highly secure BES10 (BlackBerry Enterprise Services) management server as the reason to stick with BlackBerry devices, whose sales have plummeted to a neglible percentage of the market in the last two years. Yet today, BlackBerry announced that it was licensing BES 10 APIs to competitors like EMC VMware’s AirWatch subsidiary, Citrix Systems’ Zenprise-based XenMobile unit, and IBM’s Fiberlink unit.