A new study by The Radicati Group forecasts that the worldwide Hosted Email market installed base will grow from 1.6 billion mailboxes in 2008, to 2.2 billion mailboxes by year-end 2012.

For Immediate Release
Contact:
Lauren Reardon
The Radicati Group, Inc.
(650) 322-8059
lreardon@radicati.com

Palo Alto, CA – August 12, 2008 – The latest study by The Radicati Group, Inc., “Hosted Email Market, 2008-2012,” offers an in-depth analysis of the worldwide market for Hosted Email solutions and includes market trends, installed base and revenue market share by provider, four-year forecasts, breakouts by region, business size, and email platforms.

The study categorizes Hosted Email market as comprising of three segments: Hosted Business Email Providers, ISP/Webmail Providers, and Managed Email Providers.

Over the next four years, many SMBs will switch to Hosted Business Email solutions. With the introduction of Google Apps Premier Edition and Microsoft Online Services (MOS) in 2007, the Hosted Business Email market will continue to heat up, as these leading players help validate and drive the Hosted Business Email market.

Hosted Business Email providers are lowering prices and expanding their service portfolios to include value-added services, such as email archiving and compliance, email security, disaster recovery, wireless email support, making hosted email solutions more appealing to enterprises of all sizes.

To order a copy of the study, or to subscribe to our market research service, visit our website at https://www.radicati.com, or call Lauren Reardon at (650) 322-8059.

About The Radicati Group, Inc.

The Radicati Group covers all aspects of email security, email archiving, regulatory compliance, wireless technologies, web services, identity management, instant messaging, unified communications, VoIP, and more. The company provides both quantitative and qualitative information, including detailed market size, installed base and forecast information on a worldwide basis, as well as detailed country breakouts.

The Radicati Group works with corporate organizations to assist them in selecting the right products and technologies to support their business needs, as well as with vendors to define the best strategic direction for their products. We also work with investment firms on a worldwide basis to help them identify and assess new investment opportunities.

The Radicati Group, Inc. is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in London, Hong Kong and Melbourne.