Microsoft to partners - please poach 4-million Notes customers!

microsoft.jpgDENVER - Microsoft Corp. wants to steal 4-million Lotus Notes customers from IBM Corp. this fiscal year, an attempt to put distance between its nearest competitor in the market for e-mail and collaboration software.

Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer, announced the goal during a speech at the software giant’s annual partner conference here this morning.

Mr. Turner urged the company and its partners to convert Notes customers to the Exchange platform in an “honest and respectful manner.”

Microsoft has about 35% share of the e-mail and messaging software market - the software giant is expected to have about 40% of the market by 2009. IBM’s Lotus, the former heavyweight in the collaborative software space, is now second in the market.

The worldwide email market will grow from 1.5-billion mailboxes this year to about 2-billion mailboxes in 2009.

Anyone still use Notes or Novell’s Groupwise?

 

July 10, 2007 | Filed Under News Items and Commentary 

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One Response to “Microsoft to partners - please poach 4-million Notes customers!”

  1. Ed Brill on July 10th, 2007 5:29 pm

    Any source for this report? I can’t find it anywhere online.

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