The next version of Microsoft's Exchange Server--software used to manage e-mail, contact lists and calendars--will arrive in 2006, according to a company executive.
Andy Lees, corporate vice president of marketing for Microsoft's server and tools business, revealed the ship date Tuesday. Previously, the Redmond, Wash.-based software company had said the software would arrive in 2006 or 2007. The software, currently called Exchange Server 12, will incorporate new features to handle voice mail and faxes. The current version of Exchange Server was released in 2003. It's a dominant program in the market, but it faces competition from products sold by IBM, Novell, Sun Microsystems and others.
News source: C|Net News.com
Andy Lees, corporate vice president of marketing for Microsoft's server and tools business, revealed the ship date Tuesday. Previously, the Redmond, Wash.-based software company had said the software would arrive in 2006 or 2007. The software, currently called Exchange Server 12, will incorporate new features to handle voice mail and faxes. The current version of Exchange Server was released in 2003. It's a dominant program in the market, but it faces competition from products sold by IBM, Novell, Sun Microsystems and others.
News source: C|Net News.com
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The Kodiak version which was to use WinFS has been put back indefinately
As or WinFS... one of the few features I was actually looking for to seeing in Longhorn.
The next-generation version of Exchange, once code-named Kodiak, was to have been built on a relational data store based on Microsoft's SQL Server database. But Microsoft has abandoned those plans in Exchange 12, due largely to a desire to prevent more customer migration headaches, according to a company spokeswoman.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1752710,00.asp
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