Both the companies have been discussing on this since last December and now the contract shows that those discussions have become successful, by uniting the two companies.

Robert Peace, vice president of marketing for Gist, posted on company’s official blog, “We are extremely excited about our future at RIM and how Gist will be used by millions of BlackBerry users around the globe.”

Adding further, he wrote, “This is a huge step towards our goal of utilizing the web-based Gist experience to allow users to build stronger professional relationships.”

Gist’s mechanism

Being a service provider has become lucrative, as profit margins in hardware are declining and software platforms are even offered for free.

Nokia handing over services to others
Nokia has been trying to come up as a service provider, with the introduction of services like cloud storage service, PIM synchronisation and its instant messaging service. Ultimately, all these got clubbed under the Ovi brand.

Now, the Finnish company has started to kill some of these complex services, while handing out others to better equipped companies.

Apart from the waiting period and the amounts which were paid, the experience of the developers has been very nice with Microsoft.

Developers were keen to share their experience with Microsoft's development tools and their communication with the company.

There was full participation from the developers end, both before and after the launch of the application in the marketplace.