Market research firm Gartner said this week that Apple's iPhone Firmware 2.0 update meets its criteria for 'appliance-level support status' for big businesses, but warned enterprises to approach expanded use of the handset slowly and with close examination.

Prior to Apple's iPhone 2.0 announcement in March of this year, Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney had characterized the iPhone as having questionable security policies that rendered it unfit for enterprise use. “We’re telling IT executives to not support [the iPhone],” Dulaney wrote in an initial Gartner report shortly before the launch of the original iPhone, “because Apple has no intentions of supporting [iPhone use in] the enterprise.”

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