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Thursday, November 30, 2006

 

Exchange Server 2007 launch: some projections from Radicati

Posted by Bharat Suneja at 8:01 AM
Exchange Server 2007 launches today in New York, along with Windows Vista and Office 2007.

The Radicati Group has some interesting market share numbers and projections - Exchange has about 30% of the messaging software market, compared to IBM's 20%, and takes in half of the $2.3 billion spent on messaging software worldwide. Yes, Exchange became a billion dollar business not too long ago [Previous post: Exchange joins Microsoft's Billion Dollar Club, gets new product roadmap].

The market is poised to grow to about $3.3 billion by 2009, and Radicati projects Microsoft will have two thirds of it - that's over $2 billion, and close to 100% growth in about 3 years. ["Microsoft trading on new Exchange" - News.com]

Good news for Exchange folks around the world, and a great time to get up to speed with a new version of Exchange that will drive this growth.

- You can pre-register for a free 120-day eval.
- If you like the ease of having stuff pre-installed (in a virtual machine) - it certainly cuts down the time to test stuff - or if you're not up for building test boxes, you can download the Exchange Server 2007 VHD images, ready to run.

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