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[News] Linux Takes Bite Off Microsoft Exchange Servers

Competitors Turn Up the Heat on Microsoft Exchange

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| IBM also made available its Lotus Notes on
| Linux product July 24, the same day the second Exchange beta was
| released.
| 
| [...]
| 
| "This product is very important to our customers. We have had the
| server version available since 1998, but with the growing interest in the
| Linux desktop, we have had a lot of customer demand for this," he
| said.
| 
| The product would let them run Lotus Notes on Linux similar to the
| way they run the technology on Windows or
| Macintosh.
| 
| [...]
| 
| To help further drive adoption, IBM is offering its business partners
| that develop Linux-based applications up to $20,000 for migrating
| customers from Microsoft Exchange to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino on
| Linux desktop, under an initiative known as "Migrate to the Penguin," 
| Fontaine said.
| 
| Data Return's Stidley notes that the move by IBM toward a Linux desktop
| is "definitely something that should put Microsoft on alert, even though
| it doesn't seem to be an immediate threat."
| 
| 
| [...]
| 
| But Glenn Winokur, the CEO of Scalix, a messaging infrastructure
| company based in San Mateo, Calif., whose products are based on a
| Linux and open systems architecture, begs to differ, noting that 1
| million mailboxes of its software have been deployed.
| 
| [...]
| 
| "Enterprise customers want an enterprise Linux e-mail, calendar
| and integration platform, with open-source community support and
| choice of clients and directories," he said.
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