The Irvine, California-based application, database, and Windows management specialist is well known for its technologies and programs to migrate users of older Windows Exchange products to Exchange 2003, and the purchase of Wingra will help it target existing IBM and Novell shops.
Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Wingra’s core offerings include the GroupWise Migrator for Exchange and Notes Migrator for Exchange products, which convert and move mailboxes and files to Microsoft Exchange 2003 from Novell GroupWise and IBM’s Lotus Notes, respectively.
We’ve always focused on Exchange as a source, said Quest’s technical manager for Northern Europe, Joe Baguley. We have been recommending Wingra as someone to go and see if you wanted to do Notes to Exchange for a number of years.
Baguley said that during that time Quest has seen demand for Exchange 2003 move from existing Microsoft Exchange 5.0 or 2000 users, to users of other platforms. In the last year there has been much more adoption of Exchange by non-Exchange users, he said.
Figures from International Data indicate that Microsoft is indeed growing its share of the collaboration software market at the expense of its competitors. For 2003, IDC said Microsoft grew its share 6.2% to 46.4% to grab top spot from IBM, which fell 3.5% to 42.7% of the total $1.66bn integrated collaborative environments market. Novell had 7.0% of the market, up 1.2%
Quest has been a key Microsoft partner for some time, based on its migration and management technologies, and the acquisition of Wingra has boosted that partnership, given that Microsoft is targeting Novell GroupWise customers.
Last week Microsoft announced that Exchange Server 2003 will natively support migration tools for customers running GroupWise 6.5.x, where previously, just GroupWise 5.x and 4.1.x were supported, while customers with more than 1,000 seats are being offered Quest’s new GroupWise Migrator at a 20% discount of the list price.
