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Following the MS business model

IT evolution has shown in the past 50 years to be small improvements leveraging existing resources. Between MS Exchange and Novell Groupwise, you have about 90+% of enterprise email covered. Before Evolution, the only method of leveraging most of the functionality in Exchange was to use MS Outlook. MS has made a healthy living on the principle of embrace, extend, extenguish. It looks like Novell is trying to borrow from the MS playbook. Speaking from direct experience, MS Exchange isn't a very good enterprise email server. It's engine is Jet, the same engine that drives MS Access and Visual FoxPro. I won't bore with details, but Jet was never designed to support large numbers of simultaneous users. It seems that Evolution is being used as an insulating layer between email server and email client. Once that layer is in place, migrating the email server is much less a task as long as the insulating layer talks to multiple email servers the same way. I like to look at what's going on in the open source arena today as MS dying the death of a thousand cuts. None are killing blows in and of themselves, but the net result will be either the death of MS or MS being forced to make better products. Neither of these eventualities can be seen as a bad thing.

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