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To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (64381)	1/23/2002 9:47:45 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft Exchange Server Winning the Enterprise With 100 Million Seats Sold /FROM PR NEWSWIRE SAN FRANCISCO 415-543-7800/ -- WITH PHOTO -- TO BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS: Microsoft Exchange Server Winning the Enterprise With 100 Million Seats Sold Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Anytime, Anywhere Access Make the Sale REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that Exchange Server is experiencing phenomenal growth in the enterprise messaging space, with more than 100 million licenses sold. Large organizations and enterprise customers such as the U.S. Congress, Cardinal Health Inc., Kinko's Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., South Trust Corp., UnumProvident Corp. and Marathon Ashland Petroleum are switching from competing platforms to Exchange 2000 for its scalability, mobile access, lower total cost of ownership and integration with the Microsoft(R) .NET Platform to build XML Web services. (Photo: NewsCom: newscom.com ) "The word is out: If you're an enterprise, and you want a reliable messaging and collaboration system that will give you the tools to take advantage of .NET and build the most powerful information-sharing infrastructure with maximum uptime, Exchange 2000 delivers," said Malcolm Pearson, general manager of the Exchange Server Business Unit at Microsoft. "One hundred million seats marks a milestone for Microsoft, one that we are most proud of." According to The Radicati Group Inc.'s Messaging Market Report 2001-2005, Microsoft Exchange Server continues to be the leading enterprise messaging platform among Global 1000 companies. The study said Exchange enjoyed a higher growth rate than the competition over the past year and currently leads the market in terms of seats sold and deployed with 43 percent install base. JFD