Today,
Electronic Mail is as much a part of the business "landscape"
as the telephone and the FAX machine. A few years ago, the
question was "Do you have e-mail?" Today, it's "What's your
e-mail address?"
But today's "Enterprise Messaging" systems
offer many capabilities that go beyond simple messaging. Shared
Calendars, Workflow Management, and Document Management are
only a few of the applications for which Messaging systems
are being used.
Today, there are many different solutions
for providing these Enterprise Messaging services. Depending
upon your needs and your budgets, any one of the following
may be the right solution for you.
Combined with powerful client software
such as Microsoft Outlook, Open Source solutions can
offer 80% to 90% of the functionality of commercial
software.