BlackBerry Request

First, I want to apologize for posing this question to this list, as the 
LNotes listserv is currently being blocked by SpamHaus as a spammer. Short 
story, it seems that list is on an address block where one IP Address is a 
known spammer so SpamHaus has blocked the entire range. The list owner is 
working on getting the IP Address of the LNotes listserv removed.

If you stick around this business long enough, you will hear it all. Case 
in point:
Client wants to bring in BlackBerry's for their upper management. No 
problem with this. The kicker is that the IT manager doesn't want to spend 
money on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, so he wants to use the 
BlackBerry to hit the people's e-mail using iNotes and the BB web browser 
(like a slimmed down PC). I don't feel too good about this, but thought 
that I would ask if any of you use the device in this manner and what 
things I may expect (I am thinking that those 'things' will be mostly 
bad).

Couldn't they "outsource" BES to some vendor, like Verizon, and put a 
forwarding address in the Person Document when the user is out of the 
office?

You can tell that I don't get this request, since everyone that I know 
that have Domino and BlackBerry's also have BES on site.

Thanks.

Gregg