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Well we’ve narrowed down choices to two choices, two hosters against one of three desktop and two mobile clients. Here are the parameters:

Support for either of, in order:

• Mac OS X application. That is Mail, iCal and Address Book that are native to OS X and which is fast.
• Entourage 2004 or 2008 from Microsoft and typically free with any hoster. 2004 is slow as it is a non-native application while 2008 is new and definitely has sync issues.

• Outlook 2007 from Windows or via Parallels on the Mac. But Parallels on the Mac is very slow.

  And to support both of:

• iPhone. We really mean the version 2 that will have ActiveSync

• Blackberry. Because folks have these but like the iPhone

  So our choices technically are:

• Kerio. This is a Mac messaging, contact and calendaring backend

• Exchange

  Here is how the matrix looks right now:

  Kerio	Exchange	Comment	Mac Mail	Runs in Imap	Runs as imap	Both of these work fine
  Address Book	Needs Kerio Sync to change contacts	Requires Entourage
  iCal	Use Caldev on Leopard to allow delegation	Requires Entourage
  Entourage 2004	Via OWA Emulation	Works	Not a native Intel app
  Entourage 2008	Need to Test	Need to test	Allows OOF setting
  Outlook	Need to Test	Unacceptably Slow
  Windows	Need to Test	Works great	Assumes Outlook 2008
  Blackberry	Need to test	Works great
  iPhone	v2 should work	wait for v2	Kerio looks like Exchange so should work with iPhone v2!