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Take A Message: It's Lotus Vs. Exchange
12:26 PM EDT Mon. Jun. 08, 2009
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We were simply blown away with the performance of Exchange 2010. Microsoft has achieved about a 70 percent performance improvement over Exchange 2007. The client fires up quickly and mail routing, internally, is fast.
Lotus Notes, on comparable hardware, gave us slower performance. The client took almost 40 seconds to load as opposed to the 10 seconds it took to load Outlook. Internal mail routing speed was on par with Exchange. There was some latency also with the Domino Administrator console syncing up to the Domino server.
Performance goes to Exchange 2010.
Exchange 2010 " 5 out of 5 stars, Notes 8.5: 3 out of 5 stars
Pricing
Exchange 2010 pricing is not yet available, but here are some estimated pricing guidelines from Microsoft. Exchange Server is licensed in the Server/Client Access License (CAL) mode.
Standard Edition will be about $699 U.S. list price. This enables creation of up to five storage groups with a maximum of five databases per mailbox server role.
The Enterprise Edition will list for about $3,999. This enables creating up to 50 storage groups, with a maximum of 50 databases per mailbox storage role.
CALs for the Standard version will be around $67 per user/device that needs access to the server. For the Enterprise edition, CALs will list around $35.
Pricing can vary based on volume licensing agreements.
IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Server and IBM Lotus Domino messaging Express software are approximately $99 per user for up to 1,000 users. IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise Server and IBM Lotus Domino Collaboration Express software are approximately $137 each for up to 1,000 users. There is currently a 25 percent off pricing promotion for any organization purchasing new Lotus Notes and Domino licenses.
This pricing information covers the software, license and 12 months of support, according to IBM.
IBM also offers IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging for less than $10 per user, per month.
Consider a 100-user shop. To deploy the Enterprise Edition of Exchange 2010, you will need to purchase the software for $3,999. CALs will be another $3,500. That's about $7,500.
To deploy Domino Enterprise Server in the same-size organization would be $137 per user. That's a total cost of $13,700. But wait, as they say, there's more.
It would seem that IBM's pricing far exceeds Exchange. Yet, considering Domino is a platform upon which Notes and virtually limitless applications can run, it is economically reasonable. Also, the fact that Domino and Notes can run in an open-source environment can really reduce the amount an organization would otherwise have to spend on operating systems and other proprietary software licenses.
By the time an enterprise has purchased Exchange and the CALs for it, plus the Windows Server license and CALs for Windows Server, costs begin to snowball.
The edge in pricing, when all is factored in, goes to Lotus. You simply get more bang for your buck.
The bottom line: Both Exchange and Lotus have their pros and cons. We felt Lotus excelled when it came to installation, interoperability, customization and what you get for the price. Exchange, we believe, is superior in performance and feature set. The deciding factor was the edge in pricing value that Lotus has over Exchange.
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