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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