As a user of a Sectera GSM phone, I'd have to say I was a bit disappointed when I got it that it seemed straight out of 2001: one color display, complicated interface, poor form factor. Other than being able to go secure, it's not that great a phone IMHO. I've never used the Sectera handheld, but I would guess if RIM could pull off a secure BB solution they'd have a leg up on the Sectera just from a form-fits-function standpoint.

I once worked at an unnamed institution which had a large Windoze network and some smaller "research" Linux labs. Just like everyone else's story for the most part the IT guys didn't have a clue about the Linux side of things. For some reason, which I could never figure out, trying to connect to people's Windoze home directories through SAMBA (smbmount) would never work properly--we'd always get some weird auth error or something. Just for kicks I tried to smb://hostname/share one day with Nautilus and it worked without complalint. Don't ask, don't tell I guess, but it sure saved some hassle transfering large files from host to host.