Here is another take on “making email boring”- how corporate America is trying to deal with email overload. Some of you may have seen this story on ABC last Saturday.

U.S. Cellular CEO Jay Ellison is banning email on Fridays. Ironically, Ellison announced the measure in an email to all 5,500 employees:

“Get out to meet your teams face-to-face. Pick up the phone and give someone a call. … I look forward to not hearing from any of you, but stop by as often as you like.”

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Very interesting take on the enterprise email market by Scalix CEO, Glenn Winokur. Glenn responds to a recent blog entry by Mary Jo Foley in reference to an upcoming Yankee Group report. While the original post was debating the open source threat to Exchange, Glenn didn’t pull any punches and quickly added Notes as an even more vulnerable target. And that’s when things started to get really interesting, with Ed Brill and others chiming in. Great discussion worth reading.

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