What Would You Exchange Exchange For? Jan 7, 2009, 10 :32 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (7082 reads) (Other stories by Doc Searls)
" And, since Exchange works only or best with Windows machines, the lock-in extends to much else. Linux and Mac boxes get purged and replaced by Windows ones.
Or so goes the story I hear from folks at big enterprises.
So I'm wondering about alternatives. Not just about applications, but about who's doing what. Is Google using Exchange? Are Sun, IBM or other open-friendly companies? If not, what ways have they found around it? What do they give up and what do they gain?"
