Joe, in your very considerate opinion, WTF is wrong with MS and their own platforms? I mean, databases (heed my words) add up to some 60% of the current software technology. Were not by this thread of yours, I would've thought Microsoft should have the BEST Access implementation for mobile.
I am just chewing the chances for a platform move-on. My eyes were somewhat focused on Symbian, but I gotta admit all I've absorbed about it is Antoine's enthusiasm for the platform; in digital tech subjects, AW has turned out to be a powerful influence in me. Next comes Android, but AFAIG it is in diapers, however evolved I don't see many of the commodities of recent platforms, that or I've also got it all wrong and it's a whole new mobile paradigm. No interest at all in BB. Nothing but curiosity for iPod/iPhone/whatchamacallit OS. Last but not least, WM in any flavor; I know it's no digital tech heaven, but it is very ubiquitous, usually addressed as functional, and speaking of influence, you, Mi An and Jig have made quite the same move into it. Can't tell you're not a powerful influence to me as well. While Jig and Mi An are something of power users, my expectations pretty much resemble yours. Something that converges personal and workie without that much tinkering, PAYG, and in a condition where 'creating a working system' doesn't mean 'make me trip with my own feet'.
(Using Palmie's terms) I've also made a bunch of iPhone dudes drool with what I can do with much much different platforms. For the sole exception of a Moto SLVR, in mobile currently I'm 100% Palm OS. OK, I can't play Garbage Pail Kids or Lightsaber, but that is so irrelevant to me, while I can receive email through a Microsoft Exchange server, or geez how difficult open an MS Word document, without reassembling a whole mobile system throughout the evening 
News Flash acknowledged: when I'm in the position to choose, I'll avoid HanDBase like the plague 
