Microsoft wants to steal 5 million Notes customer
Microsoft is seeking to get five million Lotus Notes customers to make the switch to Microsoft's collaboration tools in its fiscal 2009 year, according to Kevin Turner, COO for the software giant.
"Let's talk about replacing Lotus Notes," said Turner during his presentation Wednesday at Microsoft's annual meeting for financial analysts. "This past year we sold in 4.86 million seats of our collaboration solution -- SharePoint, Exchange and Office -- into IBM Lotus Notes accounts," Turner went on about Microsoft's success in the historical messaging and collaboration battle it has fought with IBM and Lotus.
"If you take the last two years, we have sold in eight million seats. This next year I have a goal for the [sales] field that is more than five million seats," he said.
