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Business week thinks Domino has 20% of the enterprise market

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Unless I read it wrong, Business Week believes that Exchange has 80% of the enterprise?

For example, many big companies—maybe 20% of them—use software other than Exchange, such as IBM’s Lotus Domino.

As with most statements like this, the author doesn't state where they get these numbers.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 03/12/2008 | Permalink |

Comments

1 - Actually, they're not saying Lotus has 20% -- they're saying Lotus shares a 20% slice with everybody else besides Microsoft.

Posted by Andre Guirard At 10:11:30 PM On 03/12/2008 | - Website - |

2 - Link?

Posted by Richard Schwartz At 11:20:08 PM On 03/12/2008 | - Website - |

3 - So, in the eyes of BusinessWeek, MS has 80% of the Enterprise market and Lotus, Sendmail, Groupwise, AOL, gmail, and other, have the aggregate 20%. Brilliant!

Must be nice to get paid for knowing so little about that which someone writes from a perspective of authority.

Posted by Bill Malchisky At 02:45:55 AM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

4 - Where did he get the numbers? From Bill Gates' claim that Exchange has 80% share, of course.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 07:58:27 AM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

5 - I expect Notes 8.x to drive down market share further.

Posted by Wassim At 09:26:15 AM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

6 - Does this mean if I buy an iPhone with ActiveSync, then Microsoft will count me as an Outlook user? Emoticon

Posted by Brian At 10:22:30 AM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

7 - @4 Both Gates and Business Week get these numbers from Sara. *cough* Dr. Sara, Ph.D.

Posted by Vitor Pereira At 11:11:19 AM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

8 - Trackback...

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Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 12:15:02 PM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

9 - So, how much is it then?
Why is there such a secret about the number of licenses being on passport maintenance?
I am not saying the numbers are true, I simply do not know.

Posted by Henning Heinz At 01:13:16 PM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

10 - I have long assumed that every time anyone ships a PC that happens to have Outlook Express preinstalled, Microsoft counts that as a "seat." That's like AOL considering anyone who buys a PC that has that "try AOL FREE!" desktop icon on it is an AOL customer.

Posted by Turtle At 05:02:21 PM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |