Prom1, I own a small company..... we are a technical consulting company, provide IT services to small business and have a data center that hosts many of our clients servers. We have a niche in the IBM iSeries world, have about a dozen in our data center as well as the run of the mill Wintel servers as well. All of my techies prefer their WM devices and that is OK. I have a very technical background and run the BES integrated to our exchange server. Its easy to admin a BES for one. Everyone else uses active sync. My main requirement is to be able to telnet to the iSeries boxes in my data center. Some have public address, many do not. I have a telnet 5250 app my BB that allows me access to every server via the BES connection. I can not do this as well on my S60 devices. The lack of a decent VPN and a decent telnet app that supports the 5250 data stream makes it not as easy to support my clients. Having a device in my pocket that allowed me to manage routine issues from anywhere has been a Godsend for me. Our data center is a lights out operation and totally monitored for everything remotely. I can get a text message with an alert for almost anything and need to be able to solve most problems if I am not in the data center. All my device have given me freedom, but my BB has really allowed me the freedom to be out of the office as much as I need to.