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This is where and why Outlook is beating Notes for awareness

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Microsoft and Comcast announced a deal where the Comcast SMB customers will get access to hosted Outlook and Sharepoint.  No servers to deploy, support is provided as part of their regular monthly cost.  How does this hurt Notes/Domino?  Well SMB is where the growth opportunity is, this type of deal builds awareness, it's considered "free", go look for hosted Domino servers, there is probably a handful of hosting providers, for Exchange there are hundreds. For ease of accessibility in find a solution, Microsoft is winning hands down.  IBM really needs to focus heavily on this market, Domino is the perfect SMB solution if people knew about it and had easy access to it.

Comcast and Microsoft Launch Microsoft Communication Services From Comcast for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

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Posted by Carl Tyler On 11/15/2007 | | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

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Gravatar Image1 - do you really think things like the Comcast deal is why Microsoft is beating IBM in awareness ?! Could it be something as simple as their "consumer focus" !

Who gets the whole "middle ware" mantra anyways ?

Posted by Glen At 04:57:55 PM On 11/15/2007 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - You got it 100% right with "Domino is the perfect SMB solution if people knew about it and had easy access to it". However IBM don't get this, nor does their licencing model exploit this. A hosted Domino solution is way too expensive because IBM dont have a selling model that works with this, for SMB. They do for large corporates, but that is all. IBM still believes SMB is the size of a corporate anyway, not a small business.

Posted by Rupert At 06:19:10 PM On 11/19/2007 | - Website - |


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