Free Mobile Push for Windows Mobile & Blackberry

I realize this post is coming up at 3:30AM and I was dead tired about 20 minutes ago but this is just too cool to sleep on. Funambol is an open source company that provides mobile sync software for Windows Mobile, Blackberry and a ton of other commodity wireless devices. This is earth shattering, at least in my little world. I may never have to pay Blackberry ever again. It cuts out the middle-man and it also cuts out the need to have Blackberry or Exchange service on the backend. Software (Apache & Tomcat java based) can fetch data from multiple backends including Exchange, POP3/IMAP accounts, even freeware groupware and CRM packages. This is big. This means you can have push email from your aol.com address to your Windows Mobile 5 if you want to. It means this mobile sync will bring email, contacts, tasks, etc to your device. There is a server component, backend connector and the client software for your device. I am absolutely dying to check this out, it is by all means, the most exciting piece of code to come out in 2006 so far. It is java based which means cross-platform goodness that will run on Windows or Linux. Great time to give that free Vmware Virtual Server beta a try. All are available as a free download.