I thought I would post this item on Exchange just to show the huge lead Novell has with GroupWise, as usual it is all comming from Microsoft.....waiting.....waiting.....
Microsoft claims to have 750,000 Exchange seats (to Novell's 7 Million!) - I would bet at least half of these 750,000 haven't rolled out yet - I personally know of 22,000 in my small town.
Microsoft has a lot of work to do, to catch up, but I am sure they will (they always do!) - Novell needs to lock in as many customers as they can NOW- Sell you guy's sell!!
ComputerWorld stuff follows.....
Exchange improvements ease enterprise users' concerns?
Early next year, Microsoft Corp. will give enterprise customers considering a major rollout of the Exchange Server electronic-mail system a reason to breathe easier.
At the Exchange Deployment Conference in Austin, Texas, this week, the Redmond, Wash., firm revealed plans to:
Remove the current 16G-byte message storage limit found on each Exchange server Improve the way Exchange handles message rules agents
Make Exchange a viable workflow engine for high-level, mail-based work processing Upgrade Exchange's performance on symmetrical multiprocessing servers
These features will show up next year in a future upgrade to Exchange. The upcoming upgrade, Exchange 4.5, is planned for year's end and will provide support for a number of Internet messaging, directory
and World Wide Web browsing protocols. Exchange 4.5 will go into general beta testing later this month.
Other planned improvements, such as clustering support and an improved directory service, depend on the shipment of such features in the next upgrade to Windows NT Server, Exchange's only server platform.
Users have voiced concern about Exchange's scalability, administration and 16G-byte server limit. But they are still plowing ahead with plans to install thousands of user licenses over the next year. Microsoft
claims there are 750,000 users running Exchange right now. |
