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Microsoft's Rajesh Jha, corporate vice president for Microsoft Office Live and Microsoft Exchange, stated that his group is working hard on finally getting Exchange Version 14 (!) to run properly in large-scale SaaS installations, according to an interview with TechCrunch.

Boy, that was about time after years of trying to sell Exchange through hosters and telcos - with limited success due to the inherit limitations of the decades old architecture of Exchange.  Read more ...

ZDNet's Phil Wainewright has a nice piece titled "How much does Exchange really cost?". There he rounds up the heated discussions that were created around reports of an 800 people company called Serena that switched from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. They say the comparable cost went down from $1 million per year for Exchange to $250,000 for Google Apps. Read more ...