A little bit of Exchange history
While reading An Overview of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 White Paper, I noticed this cool Exchange timeline, with all the dates of the major Exchange releases:
Exchange is getting older (and better!), it has celebrated its 11th anniversary recently.
Although I had some experience with MS Mail 3.1, I was introduced to Exchange by version 5.0. It was love at first sight 
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And since we're talking history here, do you know all the code names Exchange had during all this time? Here they are:
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Osmium |
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 |
Version 5.5 |
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Platinum |
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server |
Version 6.0 |
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Mercury |
Microsoft Exchange 6.1 |
Version 6.1 (cancelled) |
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Titanium |
Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server |
Version 6.5 |
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Kodiak |
Microsoft Exchange 2006 Server
(Exchange Edge Services) |
Version 7.0 (cancelled) |
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Magma |
Embedded Exchange |
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Exchange "12" |
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 |
Version 8.0 |
And what about the future? Well, the next version of Exchange, code name Exchange 14 (can you imagine why they skipped 13?) will probably be released in 2010, but who knows what will happen during this time. Untill there, just sit back, relax and enjoy all the exciting new features of Exchange Server 2007.
[UPDATE]
While doing some research for this post, I was surely intrigued by Magma. David Lemson from Microsoft was kind enough to enlight my knowledge about that.
"Magma was the code-name for the portion of Exchange (the store, mostly) that shipped as part of SharePoint Portal Server 1.0. That product, now MOSS, switched to SQL as their store in the next release. Magma was only built with Exchange 2000 internally, since there is no remaining consumer, it is no longer being built. Magma wasn’t really a product, first because it never shipped except to SPS, and second because it was really just a portion of the store, it didn’t have its own code."
The name Magma was inspired by the Austin Powers movie.