Computerworld Australia: Sun´s software chief eyes databases, groupware

October 10 2005

In the category of "wishful thinking"...

Regarding the corporate messaging and groupware space, Loiacono said there are two parts to it - one for the client side and one for the backend.

"On the backend we are very much a player [and] our business is doing quite well in that space," he said. "We just did a several million mailbox replacement of Exchange at Verizon to our platform, JES messaging server. When you talk about the client side, the enterprise is really hard to penetrate. If you don't talk Outlook, you're in trouble."
Several million mailboxes -- sources say that he is referring to Verizon Wireless and their subscribers, which isn't exactly corporate messaging.  I can't remember the last time I saw Sun in a competitive corporate messaging bid -- and their share in the corporate space is among the <4% that Gartner labels "other".

Link: Computerworld Australia: Sun's software chief eyes databases, groupware > (via Peter O'Kelly)

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Messaging  Add/View Comments [3]

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  1. 1  Stu Mac macsfacts.blogspot.com | 10/10/2005 9:57:39 AM

    Wow, Sun and Groupware - thats a combination I haven't heard from in a while...

    Over here in the UK, Sun really is a dying force (he says controversially) - IBM are no1, HP no2 in the enterprise space. In fact, in several recent bids we've been involved in, Sun have been thrown out at an early stage and Fujitsu shortlisted as the Solaris alternative...

    "We're the Dot in .com" seems a long time ago...

  1. 2  Danny Lawrence  | 10/10/2005 1:43:54 PM

    " sources say that he is referring to Verizon Wireless and their subscribers, which isn't exactly corporate messaging"

    Correct me if I'm wrong, Ed but isn't Verizon a Notes/Domino shop? I know NE Tel&Tel was and when they became NYNEX they still ran Notes/Domino -- And I thought Notes remained after the NYNEX/Bell Atlantic merger, as well.

  1. 3  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 10/10/2005 3:21:15 PM

    @2 not sure if answering that breaks any confidentiality arrangements, but I was definitely trying to make a distinction between Verizon and Verizon Wireless.