[Kjesse]

Hello all I'm about to do some research but thought the collective CP brain trust might help point me in the right direction.

My firm has been using blackberrys since they were available. We have blackberry enterprise servers and we are happy with how they are working. We deploy about 800 blackberrys firm wide.

We have noticed that blackberry no longer has a monopoly on the business market and want to know what real alternatives are out there.

Besides usability, our biggest concern is security of the information that is passed to the blackberry. Encryption and security is of utmost importance as we deal with very sensitive information on a daily basis. My understanding is that the new solutions no longer use dedicated in house servers but I'm not sure how that works or if it is as secure as having in house servers.

Any information you can provide would be appreciated.

EDIT 1: My brief research suggests that we could use Android devices to connect to our existing BES's... I did not know that. One of the driving issues here is allowing our user base to choose which handheld they want without compromising functionality or security. I should add we are using either Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino, I'm going to find out which.