Is that with Exchanges' currently tarnished reputation as the virus center of the world, and (according to Ed's 'M$' presentation) between 50% and 80% of the exchange market still stuck on 5.5, with support for NT4 running out..
Lots of people - say 45m users either going to do a "three hoops of fire" upgrade to the latest version of exchange, or looking around for a new product..
And of course in Six, we have a very stable, cost cutting release with lots of really good features. And a client that works, and works well.
Of course, thanks to the Domino business partner network imploding, there are far fewer people out there to service these people - in Europe, at least.
And lastly, the entrenched Domino v4.6x user base having to upgrade this year - ending the migration "drought"... Okay - some of these will end up switching to Exchange, but I feel far more people will be crossing the street this way. Especially if you start talking about "collaboration" and "instant messaging".
So, interesting times indeed. Especially (as I do) if you have a product that returns cost savings on large domino environments (
http://www.hadsl.com).
Okay - I'm usually wildly optimistic, but my rather more pessimistic collegues are starting to thing positively now as well.
---* Bill
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. . . . Encouraging things indeed (~Lorraine Umkit... 9.Jul.03) 
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