Microsoft Exchange 2003 Released To Manufacturing
Posted by Tom Warren on 30 June 2003 - 19:16 · 10 comments & 1467 views
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#1 Posted by budwizer on 30 Jun 2003 - 19:35
- The eval version is available for download already, why such a long wait for Enterprise customers?
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#2 Posted by Knight' on 30 Jun 2003 - 20:02
- How long till it's on the warez FTP servers
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#3 Posted by Chicane-UK on 30 Jun 2003 - 20:45
- Ooh.. cool... this came out a little earlier than I expected.
Should make our server rollout a little less 'tight' than we expected
Exchange 2003, the most reliable and secure version of Exchange to date, has been developed with the experience of both information workers and IT administrators in mind, ensuring superior end-to-end quality for customers. Because of its improvements in productivity, manageability and security, customers are getting a significant increase in value with Exchange 2003 that could lead to important total cost of ownership (TCO) savings; pricing for the new messaging server will remain the same as for Exchange 2000. In addition, licensing options have been expanded to recognize the emerging needs of customers to provide cost-effective e-mail and calendar services for a broader set of users within their organization.
DAVID AND GOLIATH
Vodafone operations already use bare-bones RealNetworks software to bring live TV and music clips to handsets.
The deal will also affect mobile phone purchases, since Vodafone will tell vendors it prefers handsets with RealOne.
"Real will be able to sell to many more operators and handset vendors on the back of this deal," said industry analyst Neil Mawston at Strategy Analytics.
He said Real was now also well ahead of rivals such as Israel's Emblaze and PacketVideo.
A tough challenge looms, however, from software titan Microsoft, which already took a big chunk of the market for software that feeds live media to personal computers -- after Real pioneered the product in the 1990s.
Microsoft includes its Media Player in the ubiquitous Windows software that runs 90 percent of all personal computers and about half of all handheld computers.
Cell phones, however, will be no pushover for the world's largest software company, with hardly any of the 450 million cell phones that will be sold this year running on Windows.
As for RealNetworks, Finland's Nokia is so far the only handset maker with the RealOne player pre-installed on some mobile phone models, although Siemens AG and Samsung Electronics will soon start selling high-end handsets with the software.
The software will also be available for downloading to some phones and comes pre-installed on a several handheld computers from Palm, Hewlett-Packard and NEC.
Windows Media Player and RealOne generally are not compatible and cannot decode and play content encoded in the other format.
The RealNetworks software in Vodafone's mobile networks, however, will allow streaming of other formats, including the open MPEG4 format, Apple Computer's QuickTime and Windows Media Player. This keeps Vodafone's options open to include Microsoft devices in its handset range.