Questions about the statistics and e-mail clients.
"A new Yankee Group survey of IT executives shows that 23% respondents intend to migrate off of Exchange to Linux-based mail servers in the next 12-18 months. Of the repsondents, 65% of them currently run Exchange."
Okay, I'm confused. Something doesn't add up
23% of TOTAL respondents intent to migrate off Exchange. But only 65% of TOTAL respondents are running Exchange. The other 35% of total respondents can't abandon Exchange; they aren't running it now.
That means all 23% of the total respondents intending to migrate come only from the 65% of total respondents currently running Exchange. By extension, 36% of those currently running Exchange intend to migrate (23 shops out of 65). In the words of Maxwell Smart, "Not one quarter, Chief? Would you believe ONE THIRD?" In the next 18 months?
I've always worked in an Exchange / Outlook environment, so I've got a few questions. Will the Outlook 03 or 07 clients work with non-Exchange e-mail servers? If not, will other e-mail clients open Outlook .PST files? If not, are there utilities to migrate .PST archive files to formats compatible with other clients?
