“Goldman Sachs checks in with its cadre of IT executives and measures their appetite for Apple’s iPhone: 17% of 100 execs surveyed (that’d be 17 execs, we guess) said they expected to support the iPhone 3G within the next year,” Dan Frommer reports for Silicon Alley Insider.

“That’s a ‘very strong number especially at this early stage,’ says Goldman telecom analyst Jason Armstrong, who expects adoption rates to increase once the new iPhone and its enterprise-friendly software update launches on Friday,” Frommer reports.

“We think it’s a solid start for Apple: While taking some of the corporate smartphone market away from RIM is crucial long-term, we think it’s most important now for corporate IT to let employees who buy personal iPhones hook them up to their work email as a convenience,” Frommer reports.

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