Microsoft Gives Away Exchange 2007
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| In the last seven years or so the adoption of open-source solutions
| has been breathtaking and Microsoft is not sitting on the sidelines
| watching this happen from afar. They have to be concerned about Linux
| and myriad open-source software products as well as web-based
| solutions from companies like Google.
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| One of the beautiful things about open-source software is you can
| download it and try it for free. If you like it you can buy a
| business-class version of the solution or you can pay for support.
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http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/unified-communications/microsoft-gives-away-exchange-2007.html
http://tinyurl.com/2k8zza
Thunderbird 2 Flies Ahead, Racing Web Mail
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| To a certain degree, Mozilla's Thunderbird could be a victim of
| the success of its browser sibling. As next-generation browsers
| like Firefox have become better at supporting highly interactive
| GUIs for browser-based applications, managing e-mail strictly
| through a Web interface has become much less of a chore, and,
| for some people, has even replaced desktop mail clients as thef
| irst choice for dealing with e-mail.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2116136,00.asp
Related:
Small Player Scores Big Open-Source Win
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| In the scrappy open-source software world--where software is developed
| in the open, rather than within the confines of corporate
| patents--successes are hard-won and often come in small chunks.
| Typically it's a few thousand government employees in Munich,
| Brasilia, or Amsterdam who begin using the Linux operating system
| or the Open Office suite of business programs, shunning comparable
| offerings from the likes of Microsoft.
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| But a deal announced Feb. 26 was on an entirely different scale.
| 1&1 Internet, the world's largest Web hosting company, said it
| will roll out 1 million e-mail accounts this year running on
| Open-Xchange's open-source software.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070226_455515.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_more+of+today's+top+stories
http://tinyurl.com/2jbtpz
Zimbra hits 6 million paid users
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| Six million user is HUGE, even if they were only getting $1/user,
| given that this is the company's first year in business. Would you
| be happy with six million customers in your first year of business?
| Of course you would.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/zimbra_hits_6_m.html
[Australia:] WA infrastructure dept close to e-mail disaster
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| Western Australia's Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI)
| has revealed its Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail system is
| suffering frequent outages that are creating a risk of
| embarrassing public data loss.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/WA_infrastructure_dept_close_to_e_mail_disaster/0,130061791,339274592,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/395b26
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