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For pretty much everywhere the MS --> Mac move is considered, isn't the big sticking point Exchange Server?

AFAICT, everything else has a good replacement. It's the email server that has everyone locked-in, right? I'm not a Mac user though, ... maybe OS X can talk to exchange?

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Exchange options I know of for a Mac:

* Microsoft Entourage

* Outlook Web Access

* The open source Gnome email client Evolution now runs on a Mac, and it can connect to Exchange (actually, it scrapes Outlook Web Access)

* I believe you can configure Exchange to support IMAP connections

* Parallels and VMWare Fusion allow you to run Outlook for Windows

IBM doesn't use Exchange since IBM makes Lotus Notes, which works fine on OS X.

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