MS CRM vs BCM

"So, I'm installing the Beta that came with my MSDN subscription and hoping that it is pretty stable.  If not, I'll blame Brian since he told me to use it.  It has a cool business contact manager thing that he says is nice, and with the amount of emails I deal with on a daily basis (and the number that have been slipping through the cracks lately), I'm hoping that helps."
[Steven Smith]

The Outlook BCM isn't all that cool from what I've seen. It doesn't use Outlook for its storage, it uses a local MSDE instance so it doesn't integrate w/ your normal contact lists. You can't share your BCM data either, it is a one user thing. I think we tried SQL replication to get BCM working across mutiple machines, but I don' think that worked...

Ohh well, I hear that 5 valid (yes, valid, as in production use) MS CRM licenses are included with your MSDN subscriptions, so maybe we'll give that a try... (though I guess it doesn't effect me personally, since I generally to busy coding to answer phones, make phone calls, do sales, etc... but I still want to play around with it, because it just looks so cool).