| Digital is saying it has sold almost 1 million Exchange mailboxes
(including some very large accounts such as Lockheed, BT and MCI).
The latter two are no fools when it comes to owning and operating
production level high volume email and they chose Exchange. We meet
regularly with a forum of large scale Exchange customers which I add
up to another 1 million mailboxes. So the number of deployed Exchange
mailboxes must be at least two million :-)
I bet NSIS/MMEC can provide you with glossy brochures and
testamonials etc.
Boeing has over 55,000 users, GE around the same, Dow Chemical has I
think around 34,000 users (these are all real, not anticipated)
Digital has 43,000 mailboxes on over 100 servers worldwide handling
about 500,000 messages per month. We see 50,000 message a day through
a single IMC (around 1 message per second at peak times).
It is not unusual for us to meet with one or two large potential
customers every week at the MSO customer visitors centre to give them
a guided tour of our implementation and they always go away excited.
The product is scalable and remarkably stable for a version 1 MS
product.
If you look at features I'm sure you will find Notes is better in
some areas and Exchange better in other areas. My personal view is
that for Email, Exchange is feature rich, has a modern UI and is very
attractive to IS and telecom organisations because it is well
integrated and because of the simple, centralisable adminstration and
the ease of connecting to most legacy mail systems.
Just remember that for a large deployment it has to be planned along
with the NT infrastructure that supports it and that there is no
company better placed to help them do that than Digital, and no
better hardware platform than Alpha to do it on.
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| .0 : Re: Exchange references and stability
As previous replies have stated, Exchange has been rolled out in a
number of very large corporations - many of with assistance from
Digitals NSIS organization.
Generally speaking, it is generally recognized that Lotus Notes is
better at groupware capabilities, while Exchange is better at the
messaging and associated desktop/server integration side.
Rollouts of these magnitudes are never without issues and technology
challenges, but the advantage of dealing with DIGITAL is that we have
"been there, done that" with many of the situations facing these
Customers. We can fast track them with their implementation design,
rollout and operations strategies.
Reference:
http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/1230/03aexch.html (PC Week review
of Exchange 5.0)
http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1996/sept96/decmspr.htm
(Lockheed Martin Microsoft release)
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/gcn.htm (US Postal Services)
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/bt.htm (British Telecom)
Regards,
/ Kerry
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