BlackBerry Inside Windows Mobile By Paul Lee

Until a couple of weeks ago, I was a BlackBerry user--then I switched to a Palm Treo 750 running Windows Mobile. Both devices have their advantages--and now it looks like we may get the best of both worlds.
BlackBerry manufacturer RIM announced yesterday that it's working on software that would essentially turn Windows Mobile 6-based devices into BlackBerries. In other words, folks who ran this software on a WM6 phone would get versions of the BlackBerry e-mail, calendar, and other applications, and could sync wirelessly with their companies' BlackBerry servers.
The details here are still sketchy, but if the BB-on-Windows apps do the job well, it could be a boon to anyone who works in a company that's standardized on BlackBerries but who wants a wider range of handsets to choose from. (There are already plenty of ways to get BlackBerry-style functionality on a Windows phone, including Microsoft's own mobile push server software for Exchange and Good Technology's server and client applications.)
All in all, I don't think this'll be that huge a deal--in part because RIM already released a software/service package called BlackBerry Connect that lets non-BlackBerries connect to the BlackBerry service, and it doesn't seem to have changed the world. (The Windows Mobile version isn't offered by any U.S. carrier that I know of; the Palm OS one is available for Palm-based Treos from Cingular.)
But maybe I'll be surprised--and I assume that RIM thinks it can sell more server software and service if its stuff works with any BlackBerry and any Windows Mobile phone.
And I might be interested in it myself, if it lets me get my PC World Lotus Notes e-mail and calendar with BlackBerry-like rock-solid reliability on my Treo 750. (At the moment, I'm using Cingular's XpressMail to do the job, and I'm never quite sure whether it's actually going to work or not.)