Hurdles Lack of collaboration features. Switching costs. Reluctance to use smaller vendors.
Primary markets Large enterprises with “deskless” workers. Small and midsize businesses.
Estimated cost 50 cents to $2 per user per month.
Vendors
Gordano
www.gordano.com: GMS Mail for Unix and Windows platforms.
IBM/Lotus Software
www.lotus.com: Workplace messaging and Notes e-mail.
Ipswitch
www.ipswitch.com: IMail Server for Windows 2000 and Windows NT.
Microsoft
www.microsoft.com: Exchange messaging and collaboration.
Mirapoint
www.mirapoint.com: Message Server appliances.
Novell
www.novell.com: NetMail e-mail and calendaring system.
Oracle
www.oracle.com: Collaboration Suite messaging and collaboration system.
Sendmail
www.sendmail.com: Workforce Mail server.
Stalker Software
www.stalker.com: CommuniGate Pro mail server.
Sun
www.sun.com: Sun One Messaging Server corporate messaging platform.
