Re: Where are my pitchfork and my torch?
What is this to do with Linux or BSD and why would it have saved anything?
Corporations are looking for fully supported products that have defined SLAs, Support frameworks and updates etc. That you have to pay for and the likelihood is that you would then be using have a commercial Linux distribution with commercial applications running on top.
The only truly viable enterprise alternatives for Exchange were Groupwise or Lotus Notes, both hanging on by a thread.