Economical E-Mail Servers

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.