One year after the release of Microsoft� Exchange Server 2003, Dave Thompson, corporate vice president of the Exchange Server Product Group at Microsoft Corp., highlighted the product's success in his keynote address at the Microsoft Exchange Connection here. Speaking to a sold-out audience of information technology (IT) professionals, Thompson thanked customers and partners for their support over the past year. With Exchange Server 2003, IT professionals are experiencing impressive cost savings associated with ease of management, improved support for mobile users, better security, server consolidation and increased uptime in their organizations. In addition, partners have benefited from the new business opportunities derived from customer demand for Exchange Server 2003. "Exchange Server 2003 is experiencing broad adoption; over 55 percent more licenses have been sold for this version of Exchange than for the previous version in the same period," Thompson said. "With all these improvements, we had high hopes for this version of Exchange, so we're very pleased to see it has now surpassed our expectations with over 20 percent growth in revenue."