Conference chefs::ms-exchange

    Well, if you wan't to get Microsoft oppinion check out
    http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/lotus1.htm. They have some links to
    white papers and that stuff that compares Exchange to Lotus.
    
    Jan-Ake

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.

	I just wish our group could get a piece of all of that
	action. Unfortunately, I don't think alot of people
	know we exist. (stealth marketing)

							mike
					

I'm interested in the comment that Digital has sold 1 million
Exchange mailboxes.  I didn't think we sold Exchange.  Do we?

BC

    .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