Microsoft announces migration tools for Lotus Notes/Domino customers

As part of its broader
strategy to make it easier for Lotus Notes/Domino organizations to move to the
Microsoft collaboration platform, the vendor announced a suite of new and
updated tools to help organizations analyze their Notes/Domino application
environment and move important application data to Microsoft's collaboration
platform. These tools, which will be available for free download, including the
Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino, Microsoft Data Migrator
2006 for Lotus Domino, and new Windows SharePoint Services Application
Templates.

In addition, Microsoft
announced the immediate availability of updated messaging and calendaring
migration and coexistence tools, available now for free download, that include
Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes/Domino, Exchange Calendar Connector for Lotus
Notes/Domino and Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes/Domino. Microsoft continues to
be the collaboration platform of choice with hundreds of companies worldwide,
such as Arcelor, First Data Corp. and Wolters Kluwer, making the decision to
move in the past six months. Leading industry analyst firm IDC has also
identified Microsoft as the market leader in Integrated Collaborative
Environments, with a 51 percent share, a 10 percent distance over its nearest
competitor based on 2004 revenue.

“Every year Microsoft invests more than $700 million (US)
on the Office system of programs, servers and services to ensure our customers
get the most value possible from our integrated collaboration platform. Today we
are responding to the strong demand we're seeing from customers using Lotus
Notes/Domino who are planning a transition to this platform,” said Kurt
DelBene, corporate vice president of the Office Server Group at Microsoft.