Millions Migrating to Microsoft Exchange
More than 300 companies representing 2.8 million employees began migrating to Microsoft Corp.’s collaboration and content management system in the last six months of 2007, Microsoft announced on Monday.
The number of users adopting Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server is up 164% from the prior year, said Microsoft, which claimed many of them are former users of IBM’s Lotus Notes/Domino communication and collaboration software from IBM.
New customers for Microsoft include Colliers International Property Consultants Inc., Westinghouse Electric Corp., Coinstar Inc. and Siemens AG.
IBM did not respond to a request for comment.
Microsoft also said that its free suite of tools for helping companies migrate from Notes/Domino to Outlook/Exchange/SharePoint has been improved with features aimed at companies with hundreds of thousands of users.
For several years, Microsoft has offered free software to help companies and their IT consultants move employees off IBM’s products its own.
Microsoft has tended to announce or release such software around Lotusphere for maximum competitive effect.
Outlook and Exchange pulled ahead of Notes and Domino more than half a decade ago.
About 101 million corporate mailboxes run Notes today. That should grow to 112 million by 2011, according to predictions from The Radicati Group Inc. But 304 million e-mail boxes will run Outlook and Exchange by that time, according to the analyst firm.
