Good Technology CEO hits back at Android for Work competitor claims

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Good Technology CEO Christy Wyatt has responded to claims from a competitor that the EMM provider ‘looks likely to run out of cash’, is not supported by Android for Work and competes with native email user experiences.
Writing in a blog post, she notes: “I am not in the habit of responding to FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), but in this case, I felt it important to set the record straight.”
Good was a notable absentee on the list of partners for Android for Work at the time of its launch, with various competitors, including AirWatch, MobileIron and SAP, all discussing the merits of their partnerships with this correspondent. Good, however, has partnered with Samsung in itsGood for Samsung KNOX play.
Wyatt writes: “Google invited Good Technology, along with the rest of the EMM community, to participate in the Android Work program on day one. However, since we are broadly deployed and provide high security solutions to Global 2000 companies, we are subject to stringent data privacy requirements.
“Any license term that could restrict our ability to deliver our broad solution portfolio across open platforms, commit us to comply with unknown requirements, or require us to enable access to a third party to collect end-user data, would cause our customers great concern,” she adds. “For that reason we had to decline the program until we better understand the details of the Google program and compliance.”
Elsewhere, Wyatt described the remarks, from a competitor’s email to Good customers, about competing with native as “an antiquated description of our products and services that does significant disservice to our technology as well as our customers,” and on the cashflow question noted Good is “and continue[s] to be the largest pure play enterprise mobility management player.”
Earlier this month, Good settled its patent litigation with VMware with an undisclosed agreement.
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