Keeping Business and Personal Contacts Separate?

I have a MS Exchange account at work and use Entourage for my personal contacts on my home computer.
Would it be possible to have both sets of info sync to my phone? I know the iphone has active sync for the Exchange data but then, would it be possible to sync with my home computer without having them then uploaded to my company's exchange server next time activesync connects?
I imagine a lot of people would want to do something like this??
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With an Exchange account syncing business contacts and calendar events over the air, you can also sync personal contacts and calender events direct with a supported application on your computer via the iTunes sync process. You can view business and personal contacts and calendar events combined or separately on the iPhone.
With Windows, this can be with Outlook 2003 or 2007. With a Mac, this can be with the Address Book and iCal.
Or you can sync personal contacts and calendar events over the air with a MobileMe account while doing the same for business contacts and calendar events with an Exchange account.
You can access a Gmail account as an Exchange account via ActiveSync with the iPhone's Mail client, which provides for syncing personal contacts and calendar events over the air, but you can't access two Exchange accounts via ActiveSync with the iPhone's Mail client. This is not supported with ActiveSync with a Windows Mobile device either.

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I'm a new iPhone user (3gsi) with Exchange support enabled. What I would like to do is manage my business and personal contacts and calendar separately with work items syncing with Exchange and personal items with something else (like Google Calendar/Contacts). Is it possible to separate this way and possibly even manage it all together using the existing calendar and contact apps? I am not interested in the MobileMe service.
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I don't think that's correct... in fact I'm sure it's not. I use gmail, and my contact information does not sync, over the air or otherwise. If you go to the mail/contacts/calendars setup screen on the phone, you'll see that the gmail account says "Mail" underneath it, indicating that it syncs mail only.
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Keeping work and home stuff separate

At home I use iCal, Apple mail, Contacts and Mobile Me. It all works great with my iPhone.
At work, we use Exchange and the latest MS Office on Windows.
I'd like to get my iPhone to talk and sync to the Exchange server so I can see my work calendar from my iPhone.
BUT for all sorts of reasons I don't want my work calendar and home calendar getting mixed up together. Likewise for contacts and mail.
If I go into Mail on the iPhone, it gives me the option to add an Exchange account but I read somewhere that if you set up an iPhone for Exchange you can't do anything else with it.
I wouldn't mind if the Exchange calendar ended up as a calendar category in Mobile Me which then synced to the iPhone, but I can't see how to do this.
Any ideas?
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