Microsoft Corp. sees tens of millions of corporate e-mail accounts moving to its data centers over the next five years, Reuters news service reports. Consider that a vote in favor of "cloud computing" and hosted services.
Chris Capossela, Microsoft SVP, says he expects Microsoft to allow enterprises to choose between the more-traditional licensing model and a subscription-based service.
Exchange Online, the service offering for its Exchange mail and messaging server software, will be the primary application adopted by corporate customers, Capossela believes.
"In five years, 50 percent of our Exchange mailboxes will be Exchange Online," he predicts. Small-business specialist Cbeyond probably would agree. In its Atlanta market, its oldest market, Cbeyond is seeing 40 percent penetration of the hosted Exchange service it offers to small business customers.
According to research firm Radicati, Exchange will run about 210 million corporate e-mail accounts in 2008, growing to 319 million mailboxes in 2012.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Microsoft Sees Big Future for Hosted Enterprise Email
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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