iPhone Poses Problems for IT

• The sustained applause following its announcement Tuesday and the ubiquitous buzz thereafter gave immediate credibility to Apple's iPhone. But all are not green if we see this in IT perspective.
  
• The iPhone's drawbacks might outnumber the draws for business IT. First and foremost, it's yet one more device and another platform -- the iPhone runs on a slimmer version of Mac OS X.
• One of the main corporate qualms with the iPhone will be its lack of software flexibility. Apple is locking down the device, meaning that only applications Apple approves can be installed.
• Even if Apple opens up, some applications like Siebel don't even run on the Macintosh platform. "The iPhone's ability to penetrate the corporate world is going to be limited because IT is not going to be able to support it and the applications that they're going to need are not going to be available on it.

Source : http://www.informationweek.com