Mac's and Blackberry's compatibility

I am not sure if this should be posted in the iSync or Mac OS X v10.5 section. So forgiven me if I have posted it in the wrong spot.
I am thinking of getting a Blackberry Phone (Because a lot of my business customers use them and would like faster responses to their emails).
I was wondering if a Blackberry and a Mac could be made compatible? If so what are the issues that I would need to resolve?
Any advice would be most welcome
Snapper
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Hmmmm
Sadly I have tried the Apple iPhone. I really liked it and had two (One for me and one for my partner).
Unfortunately in the UK the Apple iPhone is only available through one airtime provider, O2. I am self employed and transfered my main business number to O2 airtime provider and they could not get me working with the iPhone, the tech support was shockingly bad and I lost a weeks worth of business because they had me off the air for so long.
The apple store also tried there best and couldn't help.
After a week of getting no service at all from O2 I went back to Vodafone who could not have been more helpful. The customer service from Vodafone is outstanding. I really think that Apple should have taken which air time provider offered the best service for their product into consideration
I wouldn't place my business with O2 for a second time, If Apple allowed Vodafone to have the iPhone on their service I would jump at having an iPhone again.
I would like to add that at no point did I consider the iPhones to be an issue, It was apple appointed service provider.
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I am not sure if this should be posted in the iSync or Mac OS X v10.5 section. So forgiven me if I have posted it in the wrong spot.
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Any advice would be most welcome
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Thanks for the reply Julian,
Looking at the info in the two links. would I be correct the http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/desktop/mac.jsp link would be a no cost option?
The http://www.markspace.com/products/blackberry/blackberry-sync-mac-software.html link seems to have much more advice to it, But there would be a small fee.
Are you able to say which would be the better system out of the two options to use?
Do ether system have a down side or any known issues?
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