Bill Gates claims Exchange market share 75%.............................????????????

[rshim...@yahoo.com]

Bill Gates claims Exchange market share
75%.............................????????????

Bill Gates recently claimed that Exchange has a 75% market share at the
office developers conference (
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=41444
)....................?????????????

This hard to believe since several studies show that Lotus Notes has is
1# with a 46% market share. Furthermore both IDC and Gartner now use
product revenue as rather than seat count.

So if anyone has any studies to back up this claim I would like to see
it please.......???????????????????

[rshim...@yahoo.com]

I have tried contacting several Microsoft employees and still no word.
Seems as though Microsoft is backpedaling......????????????????

[rshim...@yahoo.com]

Microsoft sent me this non-answer:

I have requested what variable or way he was referring to....??

Later

Randy

"From: "Nino Bilic" <ni...@microsoft.com>

To: "Randall Shimizu" <rshi...@consultant.com>

Subject: RE: Bill Gates claims Exchange market share 75%..??

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:35:51 -0800

>

> Thanks for the question Randall. There are many ways of looking at
share information and they depend on how you view the data by segment
or operating system or a combination of several variables. The data
that Bill Gates referred to is one very specific way of looking at the
data.

> The Exchange team most often relies on external studies by analyst
firms, such as Radicati or Goldman Sachs for example. Those studies
have recently estimated Exchange Server share closer to the 45%-50%
range. These are consistent with much of our own internal analysis and

> what we normally give to customers and partners who request the
information. I hope this answers your question fully.