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This is what I saw when I connected to Google's Mobile Access page this morning.  The big GOOG has had a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) connected for a while now.  It provided large companies the ability to connect their secure BES envrionment with thousands of users directly to the Google cloud.  This meant that users wouldn't need to install special software on their devices and they could get their email, contacts and calanders natively... Except that their calendar was stuck at a one-way sync.  You couldn't make any changes on your device.  They all had to be made from the web or the desktop environment.  That was a deal-breaker for most.

Today, Google enabled this feature and it makes it 100 times more appealing to enterprise customers.  Users can now feel comfortable with having their devices connected to Google while still getting all of the benefits of being on a BES -- security policies, connection "inside" the walls of work and pushed applications and updates from the big corporate cheese (your work's IT group).

If you haven't yet checked it out (and you run a BES environment), I recommend seeing what Google might be able to do for your organization.  Now you can connect your ActiveSync devices (iPhones, Android devices, Windows Mobile and more) to Google directly and have control and your Blackberry devices at the same time providing your users one kick ass environment to virtually work in.