Sync with Work and Home Computer?

I'm moving from a Blackberry where I'm always in sync. How am I going to be able to sync up at the office (with my work computer) and then come home and sync again at home? I don't need to sync any media at work, just calendar. Any ideas on what can be done? Is this possible?

How am I going to be able to sync up at the
office (with my work computer) and then come home and
sync again at home? I don't need to sync any media
at work, just calendar. Any ideas on what can be
done? Is this possible?
I was able to do this successfully. I have a Mac at home and Windows at work. I upgraded iTunes on both to v7.3 so it would recognize the iPhone as being connected. Under iTunes>Edit>Preferences iPhone tab, you can tell it if you want you want to "disable automatic syncing for all iPhones".
With the phone connected, it shows up under Devices and you have a tab to represent the different types of data/content you want to sync. On the PC I only do my Outlook calendar, so I just check "Sync calendars from: Outlook" for iTunes on the PC, and uncheck all the others (e.g. Music, Photos, Video). On the Mac, I do the reverse. So far it is working as expected.
Note that it does pop a dialog saying that the information on this iPhone "is synced with another user account", and asks if you want to Merge or Replace info. I find this a little confusing, as I use the same phone and account on both PCs. I merged, and it has been ok.

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