Though many of the enterprise employees are bringing iPhones to their office and are relying on them for the personal communications, this device originally was caught on as consumer gadget for music, entertainment applications and Web browsing, and has gradually made its inroads only as a workplace tool. By going on sale during the middle of month of November, Sybase's Afaria version 6.5 will finally be giving the kinds of controls to the administrators which they have previously had for their mobile platforms like Symbian, Microsoft Windows Mobile version 6.1, the Research in Motion BlackBerry and also the PalmOS.

The recent iPhone version 3.1 of the Apple was released that added the capability for locking up few settings on the device so that the user can not change them while using the configuration utility of the phone as said by Mark Jordan who is the senior product manager for Afaria. This has allowed Sybase to give powers to the enterprise IT departments to do the things like blocking applications, defining the required password strength and also the locking down of Wi-Fi and the VPN settings. He also said that the administrators can also establish trusted relationship now between Afaria and its employee's phone by using a certificate.