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Copyright © February 2008 The Radicati Group, Inc.

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• Microsoft Exchange (including all versions) users experience an average of 1.6 hours of unplanned downtime per month, and 2.4 hours of average planned downtime per month.

• A survey of 100 companies deploying Microsoft Exchange Server indicated that 48% of these companies plan to upgrade, or consider upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in the next 12-18 months.

• Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Lotus Domino continue to dominate the insourced messaging market. Both of these solutions together make up 58% of the messaging and collaboration software market today.

• Most companies use a layered approach to security services. 62% of companies use Desktop email security software, while 53% use Server/Gateway email security software, 19% use a hosted email security service, and only 9% of companies reported that they use an email security appliance.

• 17% of companies surveyed reported a decrease in Spam over the last 12 months.

• The majority of users surveyed (i.e. 57%) feel that the email retrieval tools their company provides are either “okay”, or “okay, but could be better”.

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provides a single Web-based interface for workers to find and share information. 67% of corporate users use MOSS for portal functions, while 63% use MOSS for document management, 30% use MOSS for rights management, and only 7% use MOSS for collaboration.