So while I’m admittedly not a fan of Microsoft Exchange for an email platform, I am curious to see what the monolith has up it’s sleeve. Given the state of the global economy, the well the email software vendors draws from is getting lower and lower. Businesses large and small are looking to tighten purse strings and thus are really evaluating exactly what functions and features they need when it comes to messaging.
The combination of other vendors coming out with a feature set that is closer to what the average user needs and folks moving to hosted solutions makes the well even harder to find (regardless of how much or little water is in it). The standard box of 64 colors isn’t as appealing when 16 or 32 may do just fine (or when the box of 128 is just around the corner).
Well, as I haven’t had a chance to get my hands on an advanced copyy of Exchange 2010, the cats over at Network World have and they are of the opinion that it may be worth the wait to skip over Exchange 07 if you haven’t upgraded already:
“If you are thinking of upgrading to Exchange 2007 but haven’t done so, the new end-user features in Exchange 2010 may make the six-month wait worthwhile.”
You can read the full article online here and it will be interesting to see what comes of it.
jb
