Electronic Mail & Messaging Systems

1997-98 Readers Poll winners list

Messaging Product of the Year: Lotus Domino

Messaging Service of the Year: Hotmail

Messaging Company of the Year: Lotus Development Corp.

Messaging Event of the Year: U.S. v. Microsoft trial

As can best be determined from a glance at the affiliations and email addresses of the voters, the Readers Poll included 900 people voting in these 35 countries: Austria, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Like any email administrator, we always sent the ballot broadcast on a Sunday night to minimize the disruption caused by this traffic spike. In past years, the entire 8K ballot went out to all the addresses listed on the voter rolls, and within minutes responses would arrive from some corner of the world where the sun was shining. No matter what time it is in New York, it's always morning somewhere.

It's not that the medium is the message. Rather, the message is the medium. Email is both the subject and verb in this annual poll. Some voters were doing this for the ninth time, ever since ballotting went worldwide in 1989. Back then, it was amazing that anyone was interconnected at all. Now, people take it for granted that all email addresses are part of one big worldwide Internet, and they communicate freely across oceans and time zones as if it always were done this way.

Thanks to all our new participants, and thanks to our many returning voters. As you know, this year we used email to distribute just an HTML pointer so that everyone could go see the ballot on the Web rather than having to return a rather lengthy text-only email. We also used email to distibute the pointer to this page, so everyone could find out the results as quickly as possible. Several voters also forwarded copies of the pointer to their friends, family, and coworkers, further enlarging the voter rolls. Everyone who voted will automatically receive a ballot next year.

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Electronic Mail & Messaging Systems has covered technology, user, product and market trends in electronic mail, computer fax, advanced networking (LAN and WAN), Internet messaging, groupware, wireless e-mail, LAN interconnection and all facets of electronic messaging and computer communications since 1977. One year, 23 issues, $765.

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EMMS 1997-98 Readers Poll list of voters.

Our sincerest thanks go out to the people who participated in this year's reader's poll. Once again you have proven why email is the killer application for data networks. Voters were given the choice of having their names included on the following list. Some 597 voters asked not to be listed, and we are honoring that request. Here's a list of the other 303.

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John Aasan

Garry Ackerman

Sean Adams

Alejandro Ahumada

Inelia Ahumada

Frederic Alexandre

Ahmad Y. Alkhiary

Hector Alvarez

Matt Ambroziak

Patty Andersen

Brian Andrews

Larry Anderson

Ivan Casma Angulo

Blair Angus

Ricardo Arias

Carla Arede

Eric Arnum

Mohamed Baioumy

Pamela Bailey

M. Usama Baioumy

Marcela Barreto

Jerenique Bayard

Paul Bernadou

Jose Medina Bedregal

Hugo Beck

James Beck

William Beer

Pierre Bijaoui

David Bodkin

Victor Boudolf

Charles D. Brown

Michael Brown

James Bramich

Tana Buss

Jerry Buss

Franklin Bumpers

Timothy Burr

Ruben Bucio

Baris C.

Raymond Cadden

Amy Caine

Elizabeth Navas Camargo

Gary Cannon

Carsten __

Sergio Casiraghi

Jaana Cassidy

Mike Cavanagh

Doug Church

Plamen Chernokojev

John Cheshier

David Cheyette

Mike Christensen

Steve Chrysostom

T. V. Child

Christian __

Al Channing

Calvert Chase-Reese

S. Charania

Michael Clarke

Greg Cole

Phil Conrad

Dave Cooper

Chuck Couture

Linda Coviello

Guido Corbesier

Kim Cooper

Todd Cochrane

James Cornman

John Cornfield

Erivaldo Goncalves Correia

Michelle Coffman

Paul Collins

Beth Anne Collopy

Dave Crocker

Dr. Olivier Crepin-Leblond

Raymund Creus

Fabiola Currarino

Erin Daly

Tony Damico

Bill Darron

Malcolm Days

RogerDean

Joel Demay

Attila Deak

Ty Dibble

Smets Diederik

Heyward Drummond

Andre du Toit

Jimmy Duvall

Jean-Pierre Ducondi

Joshua Edelman

Chris Edwards

Denis Efendic

Bruce Ellerd

C. Thomas Eldredge

Yolanda A. Ellerbroek

Carl Engelking

Fernando Erneta

Robert Esbensen

Jody Ewen

Siamak Farah

Bryan Ferrel

Marcus Fontenot

Mike Fountain

Sean Frazier

Larry Frieson

Josh Friedman

Hilly Fuchs

Leonard Gangi

M.V. Garcia

John Gardner

Rick Geyer

Steve Gillmor

Luca Giudici

Steve Glagow

Jonathan Goldstein

Rob Gray

Bill Graham

Gavin Guinane

Robert Gunzenhauser

Rebecca Hall

Peter Hall

Adrian Hannen

Ammen Harper

Shelley Harrison

Hans Haraldsen

Shannon Harmon

John Harris

John Haunton

Faten Hellal

Brian Heise

Lars Hendriksen

Sean Heiney

Carlos Hernandez

Jon Helmberger

Cristian Hermosilla

Mark Heringer

David Hinkle

Hirthammer

Tom Howell

Dougal Holmes

Johan Huss

Miroslav Hudak

Jason Jameson

Steve Jarrett

Mark Jahnke

Flemming Jensen

Tony Jensen

John Jolly

Steve Johnson

Jack Jones

Jon Johnston

Mike Kazmierczak

Muge Kansu

Todd Kennedy

Kenn Meng NG

John Kelman

John K. Key

Doug Keel

David Kenison

Ulrich Kirkegaard

Bill Kirkpatrick

Bill Klauk

Douglas Kleinman

Jeppe Knudsen

David Knight

Jochen Koenig

Leonid Krasnopolsky

Fred Krefetz

Vijay Kshirsagar

Joseph Kuratana

Tieme Kuik

Javier Laos

Desmond Law

Simon Lee

Eliot Leibowitz

Terrance Leighton

Bruce Leetch

Zohar Levitan

Nelson Mauricio Mejia Leon

Mr. Christopher A. Lezny

Joan Lopez

Juan Lopez

Ray Lopez

Magnus Loof

Greg Loux

Manuel __

John Mann

Patrice Mariet

Mazeron

Iain McDonald

Philip McB__

Ken McWilliams

Whitneye McDonald

Steve Meredith

Andreas Meissner

Michelle __

Tomislav Micic

Carol Mintz

Dieter Michel

Rick Miller

Cynthia M. Mitrano

Moy How Tan

Barbara Moatz

Rya-Mari Muller

David Nagle

Alan Napier

Ben Nathanson

Kenneth Nesper Jr.

Ronald Nitz

Kelvin Norris

Yoshihiro Obata

Kevin O'Connell

Mike Olasin

Derek Ooi

Jack Oswald

Jacob Palme

Davide Pannuto

Kunal Parikh

Walter Patrick

James M Payne

Sergio Perez

Wayne Peters

Jonathan Ping

Gail Pilgrim

Guillaume Pichon

Christophe Poulin

Todd Porter

Alison Powers

Giovanni Protino

Merlin Pratt

James Pringle

Roberto Puente

Tony Redmond

Ian Reid

Jairo Reyes

Ken Rider

Bjarne Riis

Ivan Daniel Rincon

Anissio Roumani

Brent Rosales

Sam Robertson

Markus Ronkko

David Russell

Michael Sampson

David Sawyer

Leslie Schroeder

David Scott

Cory Scott

Jerry Sehl

Mine Sengel

Serdar Senturk

Dolph Selten

Sascha Siekmann

M.P. Singh

Michiel Smit

Fonny Smets

Snoeck

Scott Souder

Per H. Sorensen

Kevin Speicher

Prof. Wayne Spivak

Larry D. Stouder

Edwin Steenvoort

M. Steyn

Rob Steele

Mark Stieglitz

David Strom

Robert Stollwitzer

Dieter Stalmann

Guy Steeves

Einar Stefferud

Clark Su

Diego Tavolari

Jason Teo

Billy Thornton

Henry Treeman

Danny Uff

Mark Van der Merwe

Derek van Wyk

Tys van Sterkenburg

Rafael Gallo Vargas

Al Vaskas

Alfonso Villanueva

Alexander Vollmer

Iris von der Heide

Matt Vredenburg

M. Vrugteman

Carl Danial Wanting

Kevin Wanner

Tom Watters

Mavis Waters

Michael Wernke

Steve Weissman

Richard Webber

Brendan Wheeler

Nancy Wickham

Emil Wolmut

Yew Toh Tat

Tim Yoon

David A. Zimmer

Ash Zook

Top Dozen Write-In Votes

AirMedia Live

CE Software QuickMail Office

Forte Adante 1.0

Innosoft PMDF

Isocor N-Plex

The Mesa Group Inc.(as company)

Novell Inc.(as company)

RPK InvisiMail

SoftArc FirstClass Intranet Server

Software.com Inc. (as company)

StarNine ListStar

Tally Systems Veranda

Electronic Mail & Messaging Systems has covered technology, user, product and market trends in electronic mail, computer fax, advanced networking (LAN and WAN), Internet messaging, groupware, wireless e-mail, LAN interconnection and all facets of electronic messaging and computer communications since 1977. One year, 23 issues, $765.

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