Users don't buy Microsoft's Exchange 2010 savings claims

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The new e-mail system has earned accolades from those who have tested it, and yet users are not yet lining up to buy, says Edward Killeen, vice president of of sales for Imanami, a Microsoft Gold partner that offers software to manage ActiveDirectory and Exchange environments. He says, "Microsoft's savings claims don't appear to be compelling and that this release is entirely too soon after the migration to Exchange 2007. " Read full story Related News: HP shows how to run Exchange 2010 on its blade server The Microsoft Subnet blog: HP today released templates that make it easier to run Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on HP's virtualized platform known as the BladeSystem Matrix. Productivity Hazards of Windows Updates Mitchell Ashley: Patch Day for Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and others are now simply part of our normal IT process. But at what cost to our user productivity and our businesses? 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