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Serena to Dump Microsoft Exchange for Google Gmail, the Cloud
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Google scores a coup over Microsoft in the messaging and collaboration market as application development specialist Serena Software announces plans to replace Microsoft Exchange with Google Gmail. Serena expects to save $750,000 per year in the switch, which will roll out to all 800 employees by the end of 2008.
Serena Software expects to save $750,000 per year by shedding
Microsoft Exchange Server in favor of Google's Gmail application for its 800 employees, officials of
the Web development software maker told eWEEK Nov. 12.
The move, slated to be completed by the end of 2008, is a coup for Google. The
search engine provider has been struggling to entice customers to switch from the
Microsoft Outlook e-mail client and Exchange Server on-premises application to
its SAAS (software as a service) Web mail, word processing, spreadsheet and
other applications.
Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds: Microsoft's Craig Mundie: Clouds need killer apps!
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Still, Mundie acknowledged that most people "don't choose Windows...they choose applications. It's the killer apps people are choosing and that will be true in the next generation" of computing.
"I think that will be true as we go forward with this new composite platform. People won't really care what the iron is, or the underlying OS."
Mundie's comments underscore a primary concern for Microsoft, as cloud computing becomes more widespread: How does the company keep Windows relevant?
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