Consider a 100-user shop. To deploy the Enterprise Edition of Exchange 2010, you will need to purchase the software for $3,999. CALs will be another $3,500. That's about $7,500.

To deploy Domino Enterprise Server in the same-size organization would be $137 per user. That's a total cost of $13,700. But wait, as they say, there's more.

It would seem that IBM's pricing far exceeds Exchange. Yet, considering Domino is a platform upon which Notes and virtually limitless applications can run, it is economically reasonable. Also, the fact that Domino and Notes can run in an open-source environment can really reduce the amount an organization would otherwise have to spend on operating systems and other proprietary software licenses.

By the time an enterprise has purchased Exchange and the CALs for it, plus the Windows Server license and CALs for Windows Server, costs begin to snowball.

The edge in pricing, when all is factored in, goes to Lotus. You simply get more bang for your buck.

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