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2001 Letter to Shareholders
Fellow Shareholders,
In fiscal 2001 we continued RIM’s tradition of growth and accomplishment. Revenue grew
from $85 million to $221 million (an impressive 160% organic growth rate) as the number
of companies adopting BlackBerry grew from 2,900 to over 7,800.
The specific goals we laid out in last year’s annual report were to substantially increase
the BlackBerry user base, to deliver BlackBerry Enterprise Edition™for Lotus®Domino™
, to
implement Java™support and to develop next-generation wireless devices and
enter new
international markets.
We are pleased to report that the BlackBerry user base increased substantially to 165,000
users.
BlackBerry for Lotus Domino was launched in January and is already being rolled
out in hundreds of
corporations. Java support has been integrated and will be running on
all of RIM’s next-generation
handhelds. We have completed our BlackBerry handheld for
GPRS/GSM and have announced
relationships with carriers in Europe including BT Cellnet®
Limited, Esat Digifone, and Telfort Mobiel B.V.
“We are pleased to report that the BlackBerry
user base increased substantially to
165,000 users in over 7,800 companies.”
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